Craig Riecke, Rawld Gill, Alex Russell “Mastering Dojo: JavaScript and Ajax Tools for Great Web Experiences”
Pragmatic Bookshelf | 2008-06-18 | ISBN: 1934356115 | 568 pages | PDF | 9,7 MB
The last couple of years have seen big changes in server-side web programming. Now it’s the client’s turn; Dojo is the toolkit to make it happen and Mastering Dojo shows you how.
Dojo is a set of client-side JavaScript tools that help you build better web applications. Dojo blurs the line between local, native applications and browser based applications; the browser becomes the user interface platform. “Modern” browsers provide an incomplete, inconvenient, and incompatible programming environment, but Dojo eliminates these problems. While there are many JavaScript libraries available, most focus on just one thing (for example, effects libraries, perceived JavaScript omissions, or HTML widgets). Dojo addresses all of these functional areas-and many others-extensively.
In Mastering Dojo, you’ll get the whole story, from basic usage to advanced idioms. Mastering Dojo starts out with a fast moving tutorial that will give you techniques that you can start using right away. You’ll learn all about Dojo Core–the foundation on which all things Dojo stand. See how you can modularize your project for development and automatically package your release for optimal download performance. You’ll also learn how Dojo:
augments the core JavaScript library fixes the event system simplifies DOM programming provides a complete class definition facility includes a powerful remote scripting (XHR) framework … and much more. You’ll love using Dojo’s HTML user interface control widget system, Dijit. See how to use over 40 widgets, including the rich yet easy-to-use tree and grid controls. Finally, you’ll get an in-depth look at how to design and build a single-page, rich Internet Application.
Frank Zammetti “Practical Dojo Projects”
Apress | 2008-09-19 | ISBN: 1430210664 | 500 pages | PDF | 6 MB
The era of professional JavaScript development has arrived! Gone are the days when writing all the client–side code for your applications by hand yourself was the norm. Gone are the days when scrounging around the Internet to find a snippet of code to do something you need could lead to either decent code or utter garbage that you’d surely regret using later.
No, writing high–quality JavaScript these days is a whole lot easier with the advent of top–notch libraries that save you time and effort, and one that stands out from most others is Dojo.
Dojo is a library like few others: written by some of the best JavaScript coders around today, providing nearly everything you’ll need to write modern Rich Internet Applications, all in one place. From Ajax to widgets, to client–side persistence and language extensions, and many points in between, Dojo has it all.
In Practical Dojo Projects, you’ll learn all about what Dojo has to offer. You’ll see it in action in the form of five fully functional applications, which include
A contact manager for storing info for all the important people in your life
A code cabinet: a place to store, index, and get code snippets from
A stock tracker to keep track of your stock portfolio
A message forum for open discussions on topics you define
Even a fun little game!
By the time you’ve finished reading, you’ll have a firm grasp on what Dojo is all about, and you’ll have the preparation you need to begin to use it yourself in your own projects. See you inside!
What you’ll learn
Uncover the fundamentals of Dojo, its core, Dojo Widgets, and DojoX.
Build sophisticated JavaScript/Ajax–based applications starting with a Dojo contact manager.
Create a code cabinet, a place to store snippets of code for later reuse using Dojo and Dojo Offline (based on Google Gears).
See how to build an interactive and fun came application using Dojo.
Build a stock watcher application, which allows you to enter ticker symbols and will show you real–time updates using some available web service; show net gain/loss over various time periods (hourly/daily/weekly/monthly/yearly) with various charts and graphs.
Take Dojo into social networking by building a messaging forums application.
Dojo: Using the Dojo JavaScript Library to Build Ajax Applications
336 pages | Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition (June 21, 2008) | ISBN: 0132358042 | PDF | 2 Mb
Dojo offers Web developers and designers a powerful JavaScript toolkit for rapidly developing robust Ajax applications. Now, for the first time, there’s a complete, example-rich developer’s guide to Dojo and its growing library of prepackaged widgets. Reviewed and endorsed by the Dojo Foundation, the creators of Dojo, this book brings together all the hands-on guidance and tested code samples you need to succeed.
Expert Web developer James E. Harmon begins by demonstrating how to “Ajax-ify” existing applications and pages with Dojo, adding Ajax features such as client- and server-side validation as quickly and nondisruptively as possible. Next, he presents in-depth coverage of Dojo’s user interface, form, layout, and specialized Widgets, showing how they work and how to use them most effectively. Among the Widgets, he covers in detail: Date Pickers, Rich Text Editors, Combo Boxes, Expandable Outlines, and many others.
In conclusion, Harmon introduces the Dojo toolkit’s powerful capabilities for simplifying Ajax development. He thoroughly explains Dojo’s helper functions, shortcuts, and special methods, illuminating each feature with examples of the JavaScript problems it can solve. This section’s far-ranging coverage includes strings, JSON support, event handling, Ajax remoting, Dojo and the DOM, testing, debugging, and much more. All source code examples are provided on a companion Web site, including source code for a complete tutorial case study application.
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Matthew A. Russell, “Dojo: The Definitive Guide [ILLUSTRATED]“
O’Reilly Media, Inc. | ISBN: 0596516487 | June 24, 2008 | 500 pages | PDF | 2.5MB
Of all the Ajax-specific frameworks that have popped up in recent years, one clearly stands out as the industrial strength solution. Dojo is not just another JavaScript toolkit — it’s the JavaScript toolkit — and Dojo: The Definitive Guide demonstrates how to tame Dojo’s extensive library of utilities so that you can build rich and responsive web applications like never before. Dojo founder Alex Russell gives a foreword that explains the “why” of Dojo and of this book. Dojo provides an end-to-end solution for development in the browser, including everything from the core JavaScript library and turnkey widgets to build tools and a testing framework. Its vibrant open source community keeps adding to Dojo’s arsenal, and this book provides an ideal companion to Dojo’s official documentation. Dojo: the Definitive Guide gives you the most thorough overview of this toolkit available, showing you everything from how to create complex layouts and form controls closely resembling those found in the most advanced desktop applications with stock widgets, to advanced JavaScript idioms to AJAX and advanced communication transports.
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Grant Slender, “Developing with Ext GWT: Enterprise RIA Development”
Apress | 2009 | ISBN: 1430219408 | 150 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB
Developing in Ext GWT is a fast–paced, practical guide to quickly learning the tasks necessary in building enterprise–class Rich Internet Applications. Based around the exciting new UI library from Ajax leaders Ext JS and the latest GWT release, this book takes the reader through setup, the available widgets, and advanced custom widgets and templates, and concludes with a functional sample client–server application in less than 150 pages. Not your typical beginner’s guide to programming, this book provides a rapid approach to becoming effective with leading commercial RIA tools and libraries.
A practical approach to enterprise RIA development using industry–proven tools.
Full coverage of the new Ext GWT 2.0 widget library based on GWT 1.6
Designed for professional developers needing a quick, no–nonsense overview of the initial requirements to get started, ending with an example client–server application
What you’ll learn
Understand the Ext GWT UI framework, its history, and what you need to get started quickly.
Prepare a build enviroment, debug, and troubleshoot, and find out what’s needed to reliably build an application based on Ext GWT.
Know how to use the various widgets, layouts, and combinations to get the right look and feel for a professional result.
Get an overview of some of the advanced features (such as Drag-n-Drop and Portal).
Understand how Store, Model and RPC, can be used in a client–server model.
Step through an example application that showcases an enterprise–style RIA.
