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Modern Web Application Development with JavaScript - Hasitha Liyanage, SLT City Campus
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Modern Web Application Development with JavaScript - Hasitha Liyanage, SLT City Campus

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/oshanz/modern-web-application-development-with-javascript
• Owner: oshanz
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2016-02-19T09:31:23.000Z (about 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2016-02-19T09:50:34.000Z (about 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-02-18T04:06:37.873Z (2 months ago)
• Homepage: http://www.sltc.lk/citycampus/programmes/modern-web-application-development-with-javascript/
• Size: 16.6 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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## Modern Web Application Development with JavaScript

Modern Web Application Development with JavaScript - Hasitha Liyanage, SLT City Campus

### What will I learn?

* How to use JavaScriptto develop rich web applications, including hybrid, cross-platform single-page applications that run equally on desktop and mobile devices

* How to tackle common problems, including: software design, structuring your code, performance, offline mode, testing, troubleshooting and security

* How to efficiently and professionally manage your development work, both as an individual and as part of a team: design & architecture, quality, communication and teamwork

* How to (and how not to) use the latest technologies, libraries and standards, including HTML5, ECMAScript 6, jQuery, React.js, Ember.js, Node.js, Apache Cordova and more.

###Curriculum Details

JavaScript fundamentals

* Refresher: variables, data types, functions, conditionals and loops

* How to do object oriented programming (OOP) in JS

* How to manipulate web pages with JS (DOM manipulation)

* How to capture and handle user events

* How to handle asynchronous operations in JS

Web architecture and standards

* HTML5

* What you should know about HTTP to write web applications

* How web browsers work

* How web servers work

Development setup

* Using Linux (Ubuntu) for development

* Common commands you need to know for development

* What is Node.js/NPM, why we need it and how to use it

Useful tools, standards and libraries

* How to use browser developer/debug tools

* How to use jQuery

* How to use the JSON format

  - What are RESTful APIs

  - What can you do with HTML5 Web APIs

  - The latest in JavaScript – ECMAScript 2015

  - Testing tools (e.g. Jasmine)

  - Mocking tools (e.g. Mockjax)

  - Introduction to the Express.js Node framework

Developing modern web applications

* How to use AJAX

* Client side templating (Handlebars etc.)

* How to write single page applications

* Integrating with a server via RESTful APIs

    

Cross platform mobile app development

* Introduction to Apache Cordova (PhoneGap)

* Using LocalStorage and IndexedDB for offline access

Introduction to common frameworks and libraries

* Ember.js

* React.js

Other aspects of the development process

* Design and architecture – UI design, API design, OOP, MVC

* Testing – unit testing, API testing, integration testing

* Asset compilation and deployment