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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

Manipulating the DOM – Custom attributes


We are almost done with the most used advanced features of Aurelia. Now, it's time to explore other categories belonging to binding engine plugins—what exactly are custom attributes? Let's explain that in a very easy way—you know the HTML tags, such as <div>, <input>, and <span>. Also, you know that each element has attributes such as class, type, and style. Well, now we can add more attributes to make the element more customizable and add a more advanced behavior. Let's look at an example.

We had also seen the value-converters, but don't you think it would be awesome if we implement a custom attribute to perform this operation on any element? Consider something like this:

<label datetime=”format:YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm”>${match.date}</label>

Also, match.date will be a simple Date() JavaScript object without any format. Why do we need to accomplish this? Pay attention, we are sure that at this point, knowing the basic binding concepts...