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Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Aurelia

By : Diego Argüelles Rojas, Erikson Murrugarra
Book Image

Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Aurelia

By: Diego Argüelles Rojas, Erikson Murrugarra

Overview of this book

Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Aurelia begins with a review of basic JavaScript concepts and the structure of an Aurelia application generated with the Aurelia-CLI tool. You will learn how to create interesting and intuitive application using the Aurelia-Materialize plugin, which implements the material design approach. Once you fully configure a FIFA World Cup 2018 app, you'll start creating the initial components through TDD practices and then develop backend services to process and store all the user data. This book lets you explore the NoSQL model and implement it using one of the most popular NoSQL databases, MongoDB, with some exciting libraries to make the experience effortless. You'll also be able to add some advanced behavior to your components, from managing the lifecycle properly to using dynamic binding, field validations, and the custom service layer. You will integrate your application with Google OAuth Service and learn best practices to secure your applications. Furthermore, you'll write UI Testing scripts to create high-quality Aurelia Apps and explore the most used tools to run end-to-end tests. In the concluding chapters, you'll be able to deploy your application to the Cloud and Docker containers. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to create rich applications using best practices and modern approaches.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 2. Styling the User Interface

We now have our running Aurelia application and know all the basic principles of JavaScript programming. Our Hello World! message appears on screen, but don't you think it is a little simple and static? In this chapter, we will explore how to add style to our application using modern tools such as SASS and LESS. Also, we will talk about the most important styling libraries used nowadays such as Bootstrap, Semantic UI, and Material Design. Finally, with all this previous learning, let's make our application look cool, awesome, and attractive by configuring our project to use the Aurelia-Materialize plugin. Some of the tools we are going to use for this purpose are:

  • CSS preprocessors: SASS, LESS
  • Task automation tools: Gulp
  • CSS libraries: Bootstrap, Material Design, Semantic UI

Sounds exciting? We know yes, first we need to start talking about CSS, have you heard about it before? Don't worry, we will explain it in a brief but consistent way. Just CSS is not...