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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

Exploring SASS and LESS


We were reviewing some of the most basic CSS concepts, just to refresh our knowledge about the syntax and elements that compose a style sheet. In the real world, a style sheet could have more than 20 classes belonging to one HTML page; in extreme cases, these classes could be one hundred or more. In these cases, maybe you will find CSS syntax very primitive, not auto-explanatory, and incomplete in some cases. It's hard to implement inheritance on big systems and over time, it could become hard to maintain. You can apply different approaches in order to write better CSS code, you can define different classes for each web page and then import them on one single CSS file, or maybe you could define parent classes and apply inheritance to child elements, but, in both cases, you will need to deal with maintainability problems.

It's just for the reason that in order to write better CSS code, reuse code in an effective way, and add some extra approaches to make it more dynamic...