By Craig Riecke, Rawld Gill, Alex Russell
First Edition
June 2008
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf
Pages: 555
ISBN 10: 1-934356-11-5 |
ISBN 13: 9781934356111
(Average of 1 Customer Reviews)
Imagine a true thin-client web application environment, with no browser incompatibilities, no plugins, and an interface that's closer to a desktop app. You can have it all, today. Welcome to The Dojo Toolkit.
Mastering Dojo walks you through the whole range of modern web programming problems, from bringing simple web pages to life with widgets and animation, to designing and building an enterprise-class, single-page Rich Internet Application.
Are your web pages becoming more and more complex, with hundreds of lines of sprawling JavaScript as clients demand modern Ajax designs? Or maybe you're about to enter the new world of single-page, Rich Internet Applications? Dojo is the unified toolkit that you need to get the job done.
Full Description
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:
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.
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Black Belt in the Dojo, June 24 2008
This review is an extract from a complete article (http://otaqui.com/wp/2008/06/dojo-toolkit-book-reviews-dojo-the-definitive-guide-mastering-dojo/) .
I would recommend this book without hesitation. I found it informative, helpful and really on-point while trying to create a fairly heavy application on top of Dojo. Written in the usual Pragmatic Programmer style, it is as easy to read through a chapter as it is to dig into for a specific answer.
Perhaps one omission is the DOH (which the book incorrectly refers to as the Dojo Object Handler) - perhaps correctly citing the fact that it is out of it’s own scope. Given that DOH is dojo agnostic (your project does need to use Dojo to be tested with DOH) I suppose that is fair enough, but I would love to have seen even an introductory chapter on it.
Mastering Dojo is structured in a slightly confusing way - confusing at least if you are used to The Book Of Dojo and it’s well worth searching for terms in the index (unless you’re reading a PDF!) when the chapter titles don’t look as though they contain what you need.
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