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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

Time to practice!


It's time to start coding! At this point, we have our application created and running, preconfigured to use SASS as CSS preprocessor, and integrated with the Aurelia Materialize library to follow good design practices of Material Design. Now we need to define our layout. It will be very basic at this time and across the application growing, our developed components can be improved and refactorized.

First, we need to access our root folder application; once inside, we just need to type the following command:

au run --watch

Next, we open our favorite browser's window, which should look something like this:

Now, let's create our main layout. Inside the src folder, we will create a folder named layout. Inside this folder, to subfolders: header and menu:

  • ./src > layout > header >: Here, we will create an HTML file for view and JS file for view-model. Both files are called app-header
  • ./src > layout > menu >: Same way as the header, both files will be called app-menu...