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Aurelia For Real World Web Applications

Using the Aurelia Javascript framework to build real world applications.

Dwayne Charrington

Aurelia For Real World Applications is a book for developers wanting to learn how to use Aurelia to create awesome web applications. In this book you will not only learn the basics of Aurelia, but you will also learn how to create real world applications through practical examples and scenarios presented in this book. From custom elements through to bundling and everything inbetween, you will be able to master Aurelia at the conclusion of this book.

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Aurelia is a powerful Javascript framework based on standards. One of the strongest aspects of Aurelia is you are not learning a framework, you are learning how to use future-spec Javascript.

In this book you will learn the underlying concepts of the Aurelia framework and at the same time, you will learn how to do various real world programming tasks such as:

  • Working with forms; validation, multi-step, data caching
  • How to use third party libraries
  • Working with jQuery and jQuery UI
  • Interfacing with API's using both the Fetch and HttpClient dependencies provided by Aurelia
  • Implementing authentication in your Aurelia applications as well as numerous strategies for working with different types of authentication
  • How to write an Aurelia application using TypeScript
  • The definitive guide to bundling and deploying your Aurelia applications
  • Working with CSS pre-processors such as; LESS, Stylus and Sass
  • How to create custom elements and attributes
  • Porting over existing Angular 1 and Angular 2 applications to Aurelia
  • Working with the binding system
  • How to extend Aurelia
  • Working with the Task Queue module
  • All this and a whole heap more!

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Dwayne Charrington

Dwayne is a front-end developer with over 10 years experiencing in the web development industry. Initially starting out as a full-stack developer before switching to a front-end developer a few years into his career, he enjoys writing about Javascript and has a deep passion for the web.

Contents

Table of Contents

1.Welcome

  1. What Is Aurelia?
  2. Why Aurelia?
  3. Aurelia is standards based
  4. No lock-in
  5. Lightweight and performance oriented
  6. Commercial backing
  7. Legitimately small learning curve
  8. Dependency free
  9. Code examples on Github
  10. What will I learn in this book?

2.An Introduction to Modern Javascript

  1. Transpilers
  2. Decorators
  3. let
  4. Constants
  5. When constants are NOT immutable
  6. Destructuring assignment
  7. Default parameters and values
  8. Rest operator
  9. Classes
  10. Promises
  11. Arrow functions
  12. Sets and Maps
  13. Template literals
  14. Modules
  15. Conclusion

3.Beyond Javascript with TypeScript

  1. What is TypeScript?
  2. The benefits of TypeScript
  3. Strong Typing
  4. Intellisense
  5. TypeScript in action
  6. Classes
  7. Interfaces
  8. Basic Types
  9. Conclusion

4.The Fundamentals of Aurelia

  1. Terminology
  2. The component life-cycle
  3. Worth mentioning…
  4. Conventions
  5. View-model/View Pairs
  6. Overriding view/view-model conventions
  7. Custom Attributes/Custom Elements/Value Converters

5.Getting Started With Aurelia

  1. Setting up your development environment
  2. Installing Node.js
  3. Already have Node.js installed?
  4. Working with Npm (Node Package Manager)
  5. What about Yarn?
  6. The Aurelia CLI
  7. Aurelia CLI Default
  8. Installing the CLI
  9. A note on RequireJS
  10. CLI commands
  11. Conclusion

6.Building your first Aurelia app

  1. Downloading an IDE/Code editor
  2. Start a new project
  3. Let’s start coding…
  4. Conclusion

7.Templating

  1. Require
  2. Trap for young players
  3. Interpolation
  4. Warning: dirty checking
  5. Nested <template> elements
  6. Binding Modes
  7. Property binding
  8. Binding to style
  9. A note on binding to objects…
  10. Binding to innerhtml
  11. Security
  12. Binding to textcontent
  13. Binding to input values
  14. Binding to files
  15. Events
  16. Working with addEventListener/removeEventListener
  17. Inbuilt attributes
  18. if
  19. show
  20. repeat.for
  21. as-element
  22. Composition
  23. Local references/variables
  24. HTML only templates
  25. Summary

8.Dependency Injection (DI)

  1. Simple DI
  2. Singletons, singletons, singletons
  3. Configuring DI
  4. Autoinjecting dependencies in TypeScript
  5. Resolvers
  6. Lazy
  7. All
  8. Optional
  9. Parent
  10. Factory
  11. NewInstance
  12. Summary

9.Value Converters & Binding Behaviors

  1. Value Converters
  2. Binding Behaviors
  3. throttle
  4. debounce
  5. updateTrigger
  6. signal
  7. oneTime
  8. Conclusion

10.Event Aggregator

  1. Word of caution…
  2. Reasons to use the Event Aggregator
  3. Publishing events
  4. Subscribing to events
  5. Dispose of your waste carefully…

11.Structuring your applications

  1. TypeScript user?
  2. Common Components of an Aurelia Application
  3. Using the Aurelia CLI?
  4. Structure + Styles
  5. Common Styles
  6. Custom Elements
  7. Strategy #1
  8. Strategy #2
  9. Strategy #3
  10. Strategy #4

12.Working with forms

  1. Binding with form elements
  2. Checkboxes
  3. Radios
  4. Selects
  5. Textarea
  6. File
  7. Contenteditable
  8. Form Strategies
  9. Persisting form data
  10. Further improvements
  11. Multi-step form

13.Working with the HTTP & Fetch clients

  1. HTTP Client
  2. Making a GET request
  3. Making a POST request
  4. A Fluent API
  5. JSON by default
  6. Fetch Client
  7. You most likely need a polyfill…
  8. Making a GET request
  9. Making a POST request
  10. Basic Configuration
  11. Custom request headers
  12. Intercepting Requests
  13. Error Handling

14.Router

  1. Configuring the router
  2. Using pushState
  3. Routes explained
  4. Creating a basic route
  5. Creating a parameterized route
  6. Optional parameters
  7. Creating a wildcard route
  8. Wildcards
  9. Handling unknown routes aka 404’s
  10. Passing data via routes
  11. Be careful what you pass
  12. Dynamic routed modules
  13. Case Sensitive Routes
  14. Redirecting Routes
  15. The router pipeline
  16. Required
  17. Authorize Step
  18. PreActivate Step
  19. PreRender Step
  20. PostRender Step
  21. View Ports and Layouts
  22. View Ports
  23. A quick note…
  24. Layouts

15.Animating

  1. The foundation all animations are built on
  2. A note about animations
  3. Animator CSS
  4. Getting started
  5. Using the Aurelia CLI? Read this
  6. Our first CSS animation
  7. Manually triggering animation
  8. Manually triggering animation: in-depth
  9. Animator Velocity.js
  10. Getting Started
  11. Using the Aurelia CLI? Read this
  12. A basic animation example
  13. Registering custom effects

16.Testing

  1. Unit Testing
  2. What should a good unit test look like?
  3. Jasmine explained
  4. Testing view-model/views
  5. Testing custom elements
  6. Testing custom attributes
  7. Testing dependencies
  8. Mocks

17.Localization using i18n

  1. Prerequisites
  2. Installation
  3. Configuring our project
  4. Intl Polyfill
  5. Options
  6. Events
  7. Displaying localization values
  8. Translating via custom attribute
  9. Translating via code
  10. Setting the currently active locale
  11. Getting the currently active locale
  12. Bundling the locale files

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