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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 how computed properties work


Welcome to the last section of this chapter! You can consider yourself a full stack programmer with strong knowledge on frontend technologies. If you note, the concepts that Aurelia uses to implement the different features are based on common problems that every web application needs to deal with, no matter which framework it is using. Also, as open source tools, the different plugins are based on other tools that actually give support to other framework plugins, such as Angular.

Now, the last feature that we will explain is about computed properties. We can resume it in a single line:

Computed properties are those that are preprocessed on the ViewModel layer in a JavaScript function.

Let's see a very simple practical use—you are developing a page that shows the ${firstName} and ${lastName} as a single value—${completeName}.

A common solution should create a JavaScript function to concatenate both values and map it into a ViewModel property. This is...