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Alfresco One 5.x Developer's Guide - Second Edition

By : Benjamin Chevallereau, Jeff Potts
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Alfresco One 5.x Developer's Guide - Second Edition

By: Benjamin Chevallereau, Jeff Potts

Overview of this book

Do you want to create more reliable and secure solutions for enterprise apps? Alfresco One 5.x is your gateway to developing the best industry-standard enterprise apps and this book will help you to become a pro with Alfresco One 5.x development. This book will help you create a complete fully featured app for your organization and while you create that perfect app, you will explore and implement the new and intriguing features of Alfresco. The book starts with an introduction to the Alfresco platform and you’ll see how to configure and customize it. You will learn how to work with the content in a content management system and how you can extend it to your own use case. Next, you will find out how to work with Alfresco Share, an all-purpose user interface for general document management, and customize it. Moving on, you write web scripts that create, read, and delete data in the back-end repository. Further on from that, you’ll work with a set of tools that Alfresco provides; to generate a basic AnglularJS application supporting use cases, to name a few authentication, document list, document view. Finally, you’ll learn how to develop your own Alfresco Mobile app and understand how Smart Folders and Search manager work. By the end of the book, you’ll know how to configure Alfresco to authenticate against LDAP, be able to set up Single Sign-On (SSO), and work with Alfresco’s security services.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Alfresco One 5.x Developer’s Guide - Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Creating your first Angular web application


Let's start by a quick overview of an Angular application. We won't go into the details of the framework because it's not the purpose of this book. Angular is a framework for building web applications in HTML and JavaScript. It consists of multiple libraries, some of them core and other optional. You create an Angular application by writing HTML templates with Angularized markup, writing component classes to manage those templates, adding application logic in services, and boxing components and services in modules. Of course, there is more to it than this, and you can read more on the Angular website, https://angular.io/docs/.

Why Angular is so popular? From my point of view, the most relevant reasons are as follows:

  • It's very easy to structure your code using the MVC (Model-View-Controller) pattern

  • The two-way binding allows you to significantly reduce the amount of code to keep the model and the view synchronized

  • The HTML and the JS code is very...