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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 CSS frameworks


We are ready to start writing our first HTML elements and add style to the application. There are common elements that can be repeated in more than one application: tables, grids, input tags, select, and so on. We can define our own, but you should keep in mind that all of these elements need to be standardized, and defining it from zero can become a difficult task. Today, we have many HTML libraries and templates to start developing our view layer and add custom behavior to satisfy our own needs. Let's explore the three most used HTML, JS, and CSS libraries.

Bootstrap

Bootstrap is one of the most popular and complete frontend libraries. It is composed of HTML templates, predefined CSS classes, and JavaScript files to add a more dynamic behavior to each component. Created by Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton at Twitter and then released as open source project in August 2011, Bootstrap was one of the first libraries providing custom elements and a grid system to design responsive...