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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 5. Creating Our RESTful API

A web application is composed of different layers; upto now, you have been developing the client-side layer of the FIFA World Cup project. However, just presenting a user interface to the user is not enough. We need to process some business logic in order to provide an appropriate user experience to our users, such as subscribing to the next matches, retrieving the roaster for the user's favorite team, managing login, and more.

In order to have a full web application, we should implement the following server-side missing pieces in our project:

  • The RESTful API layer
  • Database layer

Once upon a time, developers used to implement all the layers in a single project, and this was because of the adoption of popular open source web platforms such as XAMPP, which configures a PHP/MySQL environment in just a few seconds. So, developers used to write the client-side web pages in PHP and add HTML code in the same file, mixing server-side with client-side code.

With the...