JavaScript
Mateusz Grzesiukiewicz
React Native helps developers reuse code across different mobile platforms like iOS and Android.This book will show you effective design patterns in the React Native world and will make you ready for professional development in big teams.The book will focus only on the patterns that are relevant to JavaScript, ECMAScript, React and React Native. However, you can successfully transfer a lot of the skills and techniques to other languages. I call them “Idea patterns”.This book will start with the most standard development patterns in React like component building patterns, styling patterns in React Native and then extend these patterns to your mobile application using real world practical examples. Each chapter comes with full, separate source code of applications that you can build and run on your phone.The book is also diving into architectural patterns. Especially how to adapt MVC to React environment. You will learn Flux architecture and how Redux is implementing it. Each approach will be presented with its pros and cons. You will learn how to work with external data sources using libraries like Redux thunk and Redux Saga.The end goal is the ability to recognize the best solution for a given problem for your next mobile application.
Juha Hinkula
React Hooks have changed the way React components are coded. They enable you to write components in a more intuitive way without using classes, which makes your code easier to read and maintain. Building on from the previous edition, this book is updated with React Hooks and the latest changes introduced in create-react-app and Spring Boot 2.1.This book starts with a brief introduction to Spring Boot. You’ll understand how to use dependency injection and work with the data access layer of Spring using Hibernate as the ORM tool. You’ll then learn how to build your own RESTful API endpoints for web applications. As you advance, the book introduces you to other Spring components, such as Spring Security to help you secure the backend. Moving on, you’ll explore React and its app development environment and components for building your frontend. Finally, you’ll create a Docker container for your application by implementing the best practices that underpin professional full stack web development.By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped with all the knowledge you need to build modern full stack applications with Spring Boot for the backend and React for the frontend.
Fernando Monteiro
Angular, considered as one of the most popular and powerful frontend frameworks, has undergone a major overhaul to embrace emerging web technologies so that developers can build cutting-edge web applications.This book gives you practical knowledge of building modern full-stack web apps from scratch using Angular with a Laravel Restful back end.The book begins with a thorough introduction to Laravel and Angular and its core concepts like custom errors messages, components, routers, and Angular-cli, with each concept being explained first, and then put into practice in the case-study project.With the basics covered, you will learn how sophisticated UI features can be added using NgBootstrao and a component-based architecture. You will learn to extend and customize variables from Bootstrap CSS framework.You will learn how to create secure web application with Angular and Laravel using token based authentication. Finally, you will learn all about progressive web applications and build and deploy a complete fullstack application using Docker and Docker-compose.By the end of this book, you'll gain a solid understanding of Angular 6 and how it interacts with a Laravel 5.x backend
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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.
Sebastian Grebe
React, one of the most widely used JavaScript frameworks, allows developers to build fast and scalable front end applications for any use case. GraphQL is the modern way of querying an API. It represents an alternative to REST and is the next evolution in web development. Combining these two revolutionary technologies will give you a future-proof and scalable stack you can start building your business around.This book will guide you in implementing applications by using React, Apollo, Node.js and SQL. We'll focus on solving complex problems with GraphQL, such as abstracting multi-table database architectures and handling image uploads. Our client, and server will be powered by Apollo. Finally we will go ahead and build a complete Graphbook. While building the app, we'll cover the tricky parts of connecting React to the back end, and maintaining and synchronizing state. We'll learn all about querying data and authenticating users. We'll write test cases to verify the front end and back end functionality for our application and cover deployment. By the end of the book, you will be proficient in using GraphQL and React for your full-stack development requirements.
Remo H. Jansen
Functional programming is a powerful programming paradigm that can help you to write better code. However, learning functional programming can be complicated, and the existing literature is often too complex for beginners. This book is an approachable introduction to functional programming and reactive programming with TypeScript for readers without previous experience in functional programming with JavaScript, TypeScript , or any other programming language.The book will help you understand the pros, cons, and core principles of functional programming in TypeScript. It will explain higher order functions, referential transparency, functional composition, and monads with the help of effective code examples. Using TypeScript as a functional programming language, you’ll also be able to brush up on your knowledge of applying functional programming techniques, including currying, laziness, and immutability, to real-world scenarios. By the end of this book, you will be confident when it comes to using core functional and reactive programming techniques to help you build effective applications with TypeScript.
Rick Battagline
Within the next few years, WebAssembly will change the web as we know it. It promises a world where you can write an application for the web in any language, and compile it for native platforms as well as the web.This book is designed to introduce web developers and game developers to the world of WebAssembly by walking through the development of a retro arcade game. You will learn how to build a WebAssembly application using C++, Emscripten, JavaScript, WebGL, SDL, and HTML5.This book covers a lot of ground in both game development and web application development. When creating a game or application that targets WebAssembly, developers need to learn a plethora of skills and tools. This book is a sample platter of those tools and skills. It covers topics including Emscripten, C/C++, WebGL, OpenGL, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS. The reader will also learn basic techniques for game development, including 2D sprite animation, particle systems, 2D camera design, sound effects, 2D game physics, user interface design, shaders, debugging, and optimization. By the end of the book, you will be able to create simple web games and web applications targeting WebAssembly.
Sonyl Nagale
Knowledge of Python is a great foundation for learning other languages. This book will help you advance in your software engineering career by leveraging your Python programming skills to learn JavaScript and apply its unique features not only for frontend web development but also for streamlining work on the backend.Starting with the basics of JavaScript, you’ll cover its syntax, its use in the browser, and its frameworks and libraries. From working with user interactions and ingesting data from APIs through to creating APIs with Node.js, this book will help you get up and running with JavaScript using hands-on exercises, code snippets, and detailed descriptions of JavaScript implementation and benefits. To understand the use of JavaScript in the backend, you’ll explore Node.js and discover how it communicates with databases. As you advance, you’ll get to grips with creating your own RESTful APIs and connecting the frontend and backend for holistic full-stack development knowledge.By the end of this Python JavaScript book, you’ll have the knowledge you need to write full-fledged web applications from start to finish. You’ll have also gained hands-on experience of working through several projects, which will help you advance in your career as a JavaScript developer.
Justin Scherer
High-performance web development is all about cutting through the complexities in different layers of a web app and building services and APIs that improve the speed and performance of your apps on the browser. With emerging web technologies, building scalable websites and sustainable web apps is smoother than ever. This book starts by taking you through the web frontend, popular web development practices, and the latest version of ES and JavaScript. You'll work with Node.js and learn how to build web apps without a framework. The book consists of three hands-on examples that help you understand JavaScript applications at both the server-side and the client-side using Node.js and Svelte.js. Each chapter covers modern techniques such as DOM manipulation and V8 engine optimization to strengthen your understanding of the web. Finally, you’ll delve into advanced topics such as CI/CD and how you can harness their capabilities to speed up your web development dramatically.By the end of this web development book, you'll have understood how the JavaScript landscape has evolved, not just for the frontend but also for the backend, and be ready to use new tools and techniques to solve common web problems.
Nills Franssens, Shivakumar Gopalakrishnan, Gunther Lenz
Containers and Kubernetes containers facilitate cloud deployments and application development by enabling efficient versioning with improved security and portability.With updated chapters on role-based access control, pod identity, storing secrets, and network security in AKS, this third edition begins by introducing you to containers, Kubernetes, and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and guides you through deploying an AKS cluster in different ways. You will then delve into the specifics of Kubernetes by deploying a sample guestbook application on AKS and installing complex Kubernetes apps using Helm. With the help of real-world examples, you'll also get to grips with scaling your applications and clusters.As you advance, you'll learn how to overcome common challenges in AKS and secure your applications with HTTPS. You will also learn how to secure your clusters and applications in a dedicated section on security. In the final section, you’ll learn about advanced integrations, which give you the ability to create Azure databases and run serverless functions on AKS as well as the ability to integrate AKS with a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline using GitHub Actions.By the end of this Kubernetes book, you will be proficient in deploying containerized workloads on Microsoft Azure with minimal management overhead.
Tural Suleymani
Keep up with the ever-evolving web development landscape by mastering JavaScript microservices with expert guidance from Tural Suleymani—a full-stack software engineer, architect, software development teacher, Microsoft MVP, and three-time C# Corner MVP. He distills over a decade of experience crafting high-performance, scalable solutions into this guide. He’ll walk you through the fundamentals of microservices, providing a solid foundation in architecture, design principles, and the necessary tools and technologies. From beginners to seasoned developers, this book offers a clear pathway to mastering microservices with JavaScript.With the help of hands-on tasks that simulate real-world scenarios, you’ll learn how to build reliable and scalable microservices. You’ll explore synchronous and asynchronous communication, real-time data streaming, and how to secure and monitor your services. The book’s emphasis on a design-first approach ensures that your microservices are maintainable and future-proof. Detailed case studies from industry experts will enhance your learning experience and provide practical insights into building microservices in production environments.By the end of this book, you'll be ready to create cloud-ready, high-performing microservices using cutting-edge JavaScript frameworks and tools and tackle real-world challenges, ensuring your applications are secure and efficient.
Lau Tiam Kok Kok Lau
Nuxt.js is a progressive web framework built on top of Vue.js for server-side rendering (SSR). With Nuxt.js and Vue.js, building universal and static-generated applications from scratch is now easier than ever before.This book starts with an introduction to Nuxt.js and its constituents as a universal SSR framework. You'll learn the fundamentals of Nuxt.js and find out how you can integrate it with the latest version of Vue.js. You'll then explore the Nuxt.js directory structure and set up your first Nuxt.js project using pages, views, routing, and Vue components. With the help of practical examples, you'll learn how to connect your Nuxt.js application with the backend API by exploring your Nuxt.js application’s configuration, plugins, modules, middleware, and the Vuex store. The book shows you how you can turn your Nuxt.js application into a universal or static-generated application by working with REST and GraphQL APIs over HTTP requests. Finally, you'll get to grips with security techniques using authorization, package your Nuxt.js application for testing, and deploy it to production.By the end of this web development book, you'll have developed a solid understanding of using Nuxt.js for your projects and be able to build secure, end-to-end tested, and scalable web applications with SSR, data handling, and SEO capabilities.
Francesco Abbruzzese
Writing clean, object-oriented code in JavaScript gets trickier and complex as the size of the project grows. This is where Typescript comes into the picture; it lets you write pure object-oriented code with ease, giving it the upper hand over JavaScript. This book introduces you to basic TypeScript concepts by gradually modifying standard JavaScript code, which makes learning TypeScript easy for C# ASP.NET developers.As you progress through the chapters, you'll cover object programming concepts, such as classes, interfaces, and generics, and understand how they are related to, and similar in, both ES6 and C#. You will also learn how to use bundlers like WebPack to package your code and other resources. The book explains all concepts using practical examples of ASP.NET Core projects, and reusable TypeScript libraries. Finally, you'll explore the features that TypeScript inherits from either ES6 or C#, or both of them, such as Symbols, Iterables, Promises, and Decorators.By the end of the book, you'll be able to apply all TypeScript concepts to understand the Angular framework better, and you'll have become comfortable with the way in which modules, components, and services are defined and used in Angular. You'll also have gained a good understanding of all the features included in the Angular/ASP.NET Core Visual Studio project template.
Head First JavaScript. Edycja polska
Michael Morrison
Poznaj język JavaScript w niekonwencjonalny i zadziwiająco skuteczny sposób! Dziś statyczne witryny WWW giną w ogromnej masie podobnych sobie stron, przy braku zainteresowania współczesnych użytkowników sieci. Aby się wyróżnić, trzeba zaproponować oglądającym coś innego niż tylko ładnie sformatowany tekst i schludną grafikę. Jednym z pomysłów na zwiększenie atrakcyjności witryny WWW jest wprowadzenie na nią elementów interaktywnych. Istnieje wiele rozwiązań służących do tworzenia takich elementów. Jednym z najczęściej wykorzystywanych jest JavaScript. Ten interpretowany po stronie przeglądarki język pozwala między innymi na kontrolowanie niemal wszystkich elementów HTML w oparciu o obiektowy model dokumentu (DOM), obsługę zdarzeń generowanych przez użytkownika i weryfikację poprawności danych wprowadzanych do formularza. Dzięki książce "Head First JavaScript. Edycja polska" poznasz JavaScript w nietypowy, a przy tym bardzo skuteczny sposób. Ponieważ została ona napisana w oparciu o najnowsze teorie uczenia się, błyskawicznie przyswoisz sobie wiedzę o tym języku. Nauczysz się osadzać kod JavaScript w dokumentach HTML, przetwarzać dane i sterować wykonywaniem skryptu za pomocą konstrukcji warunkowych. Dowiesz się, jak korzystać z obiektowego modelu dokumentu, tworzyć i obsługiwać pliki cookie oraz procedury obsługi zdarzeń. Poznasz także techniki programowania obiektowego i sposoby wykrywania czy usuwania błędów. Przeczytasz również o technologii AJAX, opierającej się na języku JavaScript. Podstawowe elementy JavaScript Praca ze zmiennymi Interakcja z przeglądarką Wyrażenia warunkowe i pętle Organizacja kodu i korzystanie z funkcji Obiektowy Model Dokumentu Obiekty w JavaScript Testowanie skryptów Wykorzystanie JavaScript w technologii AJAX Twój czas jest cenny -- wykorzystaj go na poznanie JavaScript z pomocą nowoczesnych metod nauki!
Eric Rowell
Ponad 80 receptur prezentujących użycie elementu canvas, które zrewolucjonizują strony WWW! HTML5 szturmem zdobywa rynek stron (a w zasadzie już aplikacji) WWW. Co sprawia, że tak się dzieje? Ogrom nowych funkcji, które otwierają przed projektantami nowe możliwości. Usługi geolokalizacyjne, lokalne przechowywanie plików lub obsługa plików multimedialnych to tylko niektóre z nich. Wśród nowości jest również ta jedna wzbudzająca najwięcej emocji — canvas (płótno). Jest to element, który rewolucjonizuje grafikę i wizualizację na stronach WWW. Dzięki tej książce błyskawicznie zaczniesz korzystać z potencjału elementu canvas. W trakcie lektury poznasz podstawowe możliwości API tego elementu, a wraz z kolejnymi stronami zaczniesz wykorzystywać coraz bardziej zaawansowane techniki tworzenia animacji, wykonywania operacji na obrazach i pisania gier. Rysowanie łuków, przekształcenia i obroty nie będą stanowiły dla Ciebie żadnego problemu. Ponadto w mgnieniu oka opanujesz zasady tworzenia wykresów oraz wizualizacji przestrzennych. Ta książka zasługuje na Twoją szczególną uwagę. Sięgnij po nią i twórz oszałamiające strony w sieci! Element canvas to: nowość w języku HTML5 nowe możliwości graficzne na Twojej stronie efektowna wizualizacja danych baza do tworzenia gier dla przeglądarek Gotowe przepisy do wykorzystania na Twojej stronie!
HTML5. Programowanie aplikacji
Zachary Kessin
W sieci trwa właśnie rewolucja! Do władzy dochodzi język HTML5! Jego potencjał jest nieograniczony - ścisła integracja z przeglądarką internetową, wydajna obsługa grafiki czy wsparcie dla geolokalizacji to tylko niektóre z jego atutów. Korzystając z jego możliwości, możesz stworzyć świetną grę lub przydatną aplikację internetową. Poznaj pełne możliwości języka HTML5 i dowiedz się, jak budować kompletne i autonomiczne aplikacje, działające na urządzeniach przenośnych i konkurujące z tradycyjnymi aplikacjami. Dzięki temu praktycznemu przewodnikowi odkryjesz skuteczne metody pracy z językiem HTML5, takie jak lokalne magazynowanie danych i przetwarzanie wielowątkowe. Zaznajomisz się również z zaawansowanymi narzędziami JavaScriptu, które ułatwiają korzystanie z całej gamy elementów języka HTML5. Jeśli jesteś doświadczonym programistą JavaScriptu, umieszczone w książce przykładowe kody pokażą Ci, jak język HTML5 zamienia sieć WWW w pierwszorzędne środowisko programistyczne. Zobacz, jak: testować aplikacje internetowe korzystać z bazy IndexedDB pracować w trybie offline wykorzystać gniazda WWW Dołącz do zaawansowanych użytkowników HTML5!
HTML,CSS i JavaScript dla każdego. Wydanie VII
Laura Lemay, Rafe Colburn, Jennifer Kyrnin
Internet to nasza codzienność. Znakomita większość firm ma swoje strony internetowe. Coraz więcej ludzi prowadzi blogi czy profile w mediach społecznościowych. I choć żeby publikować w internecie, nie musisz być profesjonalnym projektantem, to jednak aby mieć kontrolę nad wyglądem i funkcjonalnością witryny, warto znać podstawy HTML, CSS i JavaScriptu. To wcale nie takie trudne! Dzięki tej książce nauczysz się pisać poprawne, sprawnie działające strony WWW. Znajdziesz tu dwadzieścia pięć lekcji — każda zajmie Ci około godziny. W jednym miejscu zebrano i uporządkowano wszystkie informacje niezbędne do budowania witryn internetowych. Nie tylko pokazano tu, jak tworzyć świetne witryny internetowe, ale również zawarto wskazówki, jak zachęcić użytkowników do ich odwiedzania. Poszczególne zagadnienia zaprezentowano w przejrzysty sposób. Aby ułatwić Czytelnikowi przyswajanie materiału, w książce zamieszczono pytania sprawdzające, ćwiczenia i quizy. Sięgnij po gruntownie przeredagowane i uaktualnione wydanie przedstawiające najnowsze techniki i technologie z zakresu projektowania WWW. Zobacz, jak w pełni zaimplementować witrynę z użyciem standardów HTML5 i CSS3. Przeanalizuj zrozumiałe lekcje przedstawiające materiał krok po kroku i pomagające w praktycznym poznaniu tematu tworzenia stron internetowych za pomocą HTML. Poznaj podstawy pracy z tekstem oraz tworzenia łączy. Dodaj obrazy i grafikę do tworzonych stron. Wykorzystaj CSS do nadania stylu witrynie oraz rozmieszczenia elementów na stronie. Zdefiniuj strukturę strony w HTML5. Użyj responsywnego projektu WWW w celu zapewnienia dobrego wyglądu strony na ekranach o różnych wielkościach. Za pomocą języka JavaScript dodaj elementy dynamiczne na stronie oraz zapewnij jej interaktywność. Przekonaj się, jak biblioteka jQuery może pomóc w dodaniu funkcji JavaScript na stronach. Przygotuj projekt dla urządzeń mobilnych. Zobacz, jak opublikować witrynę w sieci WWW oraz poinformować o tym fakcie innych. Naucz się optymalizować witrynę pod kątem silników wyszukiwarek internetowych. Za dwadzieścia pięć lekcji staniesz się projektantem! Rafe Colburn jest programistą sieciowym z przeszło piętnastoletnim doświadczeniem w dziedzinie budowania witryn internetowych. Napisał kilka książek o różnych technikach tworzenia aplikacji sieciowych. Jennifer Kyrnin jest projektantką witryn WWW. Technologiami internetowymi zajmuje się od 1995 roku. Autorka wielu popularnych podręczników z tej dziedziny. Laura Lemay jest jedną z najpoczytniejszych na świecie autorek książek dotyczących programowania sieciowego.
Hybrid Mobile Development with Ionic. Building highly interactive mobile apps
Gaurav Saini
Ionic is an open source, front-end framework that allows you to develop hybrid mobile apps without any native-language hassle for each platform. It offers a library of mobile-optimized HTML, CSS, and JS components for building highly interactive mobile apps.This book will help you to develop a complete, professional and quality mobile application with Ionic Framework. You will start the journey by learning to configure, customize, and migrate Ionic 1x to 3x. Then, you will move on to Ionic 3 components and see how you can customize them according to your applications. You will also implement various native plugins and integrate them with Ionic and Ionic Cloud services to use them optimally in your application. By this time, you will be able to create a full-fledged e-commerce application. Next, you will master authorization, authentication, and security techniques in Ionic 3 to ensure that your application and data are secure. Further, you will integrate the backend services such as Firebase and the Cordova iBeacon plugin in your application. Lastly, you will be looking into Progressive Web Applications and its support with Ionic, with a demonstration of an offline-first application.By the end of the book, you will not only have built a professional, hybrid mobile application, but will also have ensured that your app is secure and performance driven.
Talha Haroon
This book will guide you through the process of building an application and customizing it with the help of lucid instructions on development, configuration, and administration with a practical, step-by-step approach. If you are a developer who wants to create mobile applications quickly, this is the book for you. Some basic knowledge about of web technologies and client -side languages such as JavaScript, CSS and HTML will serve you well.
Joseph Khan
Mobile web testing is currently a really time consuming and cumbersome process as there are no direct debugging tools available with mobile web browsers. Since mobile devices vary so much it is important to ensure that your web page looks as intended across the multiple mobile devices that you are targeting for your audience. Edge Inspect is a perfect tool for web developers and designers who are developing for mobile devices, allowing them to simultaneously test on numerous devices in real time as they develop without learning anything new.Instant Adobe Edge Inspect Starter is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with a number of detailed steps, which will help you to get started on testing and previewing all your mobile web projects on multiple mobile devices. This book will also show you how to use all the other available features of Edge Inspect and make the entire testing process on mobile devices very simple, effortless, and faster.This book starts with an introduction to Edge Inspect and will take you through a number of clear and detailed steps needed to set up a working installation, and get up and running with testing your web pages on mobile devices. You will also learn why traditional ways of testing mobile web applications are not very helpful and how Adobe Edge Inspect overcomes it. We will take a look at connecting single and multiple mobile devices with your computer and how to browse in sync. We will learn about remotely inspecting and previewing mobile web pages on a targeted device and directly see the changes taking place on the device itself. We will discuss in detail about creating our very own simple mobile web application, running it from a local server and testing it across mobile devices. We will also take a look at how to use the Edge Inspect web inspector window and do some basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript debugging. And then finally we will take a look at using our own local Weinre debug server with Edge Inspect and some other very important features. If you want to take advantage of Adobe Edge Inspect and make mobile web testing a lot easier, then this is the book is for you.Instant Adobe Edge Inspect Starter will guide you in getting started with Edge Inspect and will make testing on mobile devices a lot simpler and faster. The book is packed with a lot of examples and diagrams that will help you to test all your mobile web projects without any hassle.
Chris Khoo
Web Audio is an upcoming industry standard for web audio processing. Using the API, developers today can develop web games and applications with real-time audio effects to rival their desktop counterparts.Instant Audio Processing with Web Audio is your hands-on guide to the Web Audio API. Using clear, step-by-step exercises, this book explores the API and how to apply it to produce real-time audio effects such as audio stitching, audio ducking, and audio equalization.This book is an in-depth study of the Web Audio API. Through a series of practical, step-by-step exercises, this book will guide you through the basics of playing audio all the way to the task of building a 5-band audio equalizer.Along the way, we'll learn how to utilize Web Audio's scripting functionality to build real-time audio effects such as audio stitching and ducking. Then, we'll use this knowledge to build a basic audio layer step-by-step which can be used in our web applications/games.With its in-depth coverage of the Web Audio API and its practical advice on various audio implementation scenarios, Instant Audio Processing with Web Audio How-to is your ultimate guide to Web Audio.
Kyle Diedrick
Fancybox is a lightweight, highly customizable jQuery plugin for displaying modal dialogs. Fancybox is incredibly versatile; it works with all sorts of different content including images, videos, iFrames, custom HTML, and even SWF files. Fancybox is also very easy to customize, making it a great tool for any pop-up-like feature.Instant Fancybox is a hands-on guide which shows you how to use and customize the Fancybox plugin. The book provides step-by-step tutorials covering everything from simple installation to complex settings and features. This makes it a great way to get familiar with and ultimately master the Fancybox plugin.This book walks you through how to get the most out of the Fancybox plugin for jQuery, starting with the installation of the plugin and how to work with the JavaScript events that Fancybox triggers.You will learn everything you need to know about setting up Fancybox to show images, image galleries and slideshows, videos, and other content. You will also learn about the settings available within Fancybox and how to leverage them to make the Fancybox popup do exciting things. The Fancybox plugin has much to offer, and this book covers all of the features it provides. This book will provide you with all the information you will need to use the Fancybox plugin effectively.
Instant Galleria How-to. Recipes to make you an expert user of the Galleria JavaScript framework
Nathan Van Gheem
Providing beautiful and usable galleries is an important aspect of the Web today. A gallery solution needs to integrate into your web application easily and seamlessly. Users expect mobile sites that function on par with their desktop counterparts—especially for image galleries. In order to accomplish these tasks, you need to use a JavaScript (not Flash) that is extensible and scales to mobile devices.Instant Galleria How-to will teach you how to use Galleria in advanced scenarios to become an expert and integrate Galleria into your next project using themes and plugins to accomplish any task.This book teaches you how to use and create themes and plugins, using the Galleria API through a series of recipes that include a plethora of code examples. You'll be taken through detailed instructions on the usage of JavaScript to customize Galleria.You will create your own theme (mobile friendly), plugin, and learn all the configuration options of Galleria. You'll learn how to customize Galleria by using its extensive API, optimize Galleria, integrate with Google Analytics, create tests for your customization, and integrate into your web application.You'll become an expert user of the Galleria framework, which will enable you to deploy beautiful, mobile friendly galleries for your next web project.
Instant Highcharts. Learn to create dynamic and customized charts instantly using Highcharts
Cyril Grandjean
Nowadays, a lot of systems and tools are developed using web technologies. Customers need to analyze their data using charts on their computer or their mobile device. With the Highcharts library, it is possible to create highly customizable and interactive charts on any computer or a mobile device without installing any plugins.Instant Highcharts is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with a step-by-step approach, which will help you to take advantage of the powerful features of Highcharts. With Instant Highcharts, you will learn everything you need to know to create your own dynamic charts with your own data inside your web application.Instant Highcharts will present you with different features available with Highcharts, and helps you to create your own chart. You will start with Highcharts installation and then learn to create your own customized column, bar, area, and pie charts with your data. You will learn to add some interactive functionality such as the zoom feature or to export your chart into a printable format. We will also give you tips that will help you to improve your skills with Highcharts.