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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 1. Introducing Aurelia

If you were born in the 80s or 90s, without doubt, you were a witness to the internet evolution. The first web pages were composed only of black text in a white screen; everything they wrote was in pure HTML format, and really, really static. After some years, the first CSS was adding some color to the web, and, after some unsuccessful  attempts, JavaScript did appear.

From its first appearance, JavaScript has improved over the years and adapted to build the next generation of web pages. Many companies such as Microsoft were involved in the evolution of this language, adding features and increasing its popularity. This new scripting language allowed the developers to improve the customer experience and application performance and, in a short time, there began to appear the first JavaScript frameworks that made JavaScript the new rock star of web development.

All this sounds great, but, was it always as awesome as the strong language we have today? Uhmm, no it was not. The first JavaScript version was created by Brendan Eich in 1995 for the Netscape Navigator, named in those times as Mocha, then LiveScript, and finally, JavaScript.

Let's explore more about the features of this powerful language and how it becomes one of the most used for application development.

In this chapter, we will walk through the following topics:

  • JavaScript fundamentals
  • The ECMAScript standard
  • Setting up our environment
  • The Aurelia framework
  • The Aurelia command line
  • Overview of the example app