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Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Aurelia

By : Diego Argüelles Rojas , Erikson Murrugarra Murrugarra Sifuentes

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Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Aurelia

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By: Diego Argüelles Rojas , Erikson Murrugarra Murrugarra Sifuentes

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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.

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Introducing Aurelia

JavaScript fundamentals

The ECMAScript standard

Setting up our environment

The Aurelia framework

Aurelia command-line tool

World Cup app overview

Summary

Styling the User Interface

Talking about CSS

Exploring SASS and LESS

Automating tasks with Gulp

Exploring CSS frameworks

Configuring our project with Aurelia-Materialize

Summary

Testing and Debugging

Benefits of testing

Test-Driven Development

Aurelia testing frameworks

Testing an Aurelia component

Debugging our code

Summary

Creating Components and Templates

Lego components

Learning how DI works

Managing a component's life cycle

Managing events with Aurelia

Data binding

Routing and resources

Testing our components

Time to practice!

Summary

Creating Our RESTful API

Understanding RESTful

Designing APIs

Creating an API with Node.js

Improving our API with Express.js

Coding our project

Summary

Storing Our Data in MongoDB

NoSQL databases

Introducing MongoDB

MongooseJS

Integrating our API with MongoDB

Summary

Advanced Features on Aurelia

Subscribing and publishing events – Event Aggregator at the rescue!

Adding more languages to our application – Internationalization!

Tracking method calls and user actions – Logging

Modal configuration – Aurelia dialog at rescue!

Dynamic value converters – Less code, more functionality

Binding custom behaviors to our application

Improving our application forms – Validators

Manipulating the DOM – Custom attributes

Understanding how computed properties work

Summary

Security

Understanding JSON Web Tokens

Custom authentication and authorization

Introducing Auth0

Social Login with Auth0

Single sign-on

Summary

Running E2E Tests

Integration testing – Multiple services, one application

Does our app meet our business requirements? UI testing

API test with Swagger

Summary

Deployment

Configuring our web for production

Deploying on your own server

Deploying on Heroku

Deploying on AWS S3 Buckets

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Testing and Debugging

Testing is one of the most important phases of the development process. Whatever type of project you are working on, testing is key if you want to deliver applications with high quality and make your users happy.

Just imagine what would happen if your favorite taxi application makes your driver take you to the wrong place or the price of your trip is higher than it's supposed to be? This embarrassing bug will undoubtedly produce a series of catastrophic events that will damage the reputation of the application and, worse still, the company reputation.

Learning how to test our Aurelia applications and how to correctly apply the Test-Driven Development (TDD) approach will improve the quality of your applications, avoid embarrassing bugs, make your users happier, and make you a better developer. So, in this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

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