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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

Understanding RESTful


In this section, we will go through the components HTTP and CRUD (CreateRetrieve, Update and Delete), which form the basic building block of RESTful. These components together make possible the communication between different applications over the internet in a distributed environment via a well-defined API.

Understanding HTTP

Every time you are navigating on the internet, you are using the HTTP. Even when you are booking a ride on Uber, you are using HTTP. In fact, HTTP is present in almost all the applications that you use on a daily basis.

HTTP is based on the principle of client-server communication. It means that every time you want to access an information or resources, you have to send a request object and the server will send you all the requested information into a response object. The following diagram explains this communication:

So, in order to really understand how to design a robust HTTP RESTful API we need to know how URLs works and learn about the HTTP...