Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Aurelia

English | 2018 | ISBN: 978-1788833202 | 348 Pages | EPUB | 10 MB

Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Aurelia: Develop modern and real-time web apps with Aurelia and Node.js
Develop rich and scalable web applications with Node.js, Express.js, and MongoDB
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.
What You Will Learn

• Employ best practices and modern approaches to create frontend applications
• Learn about modern CSS preprocessors and improve the readability of your application
• Use the Aurelia framework to create navigable web applications
• Write your own tests, making your application secure and fault-tolerant
• Create solid RESTful APIs using the microservice architecture
• Understand the NoSQL paradigm and get the best performance from your database
• Integrate third-party libraries such as Gmail for Single Sign On
• Write UI testing scripts and integration tests to build extensible apps