February 2015
Intermediate to advanced
252 pages
5h 17m
English
Content preview from Developing Web Components
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Chapter 1. Introduction
Oh, good, you’re here! Welcome! We hope you’re in for a fun ride. If you’re the type of person who skips the prefaces of books, we need to go over something real quick: this book is set up in a way that takes you through basic widget creation from a jQuery background and then translates that knowledge and understanding first into the world of web components, and then into that of Polymerized web components (web components created using the Polymer framework).
Web components are on the bleeding edge, barely supported in the most modern of modern browsers, and we have a fair way to go before people start falling into generally accepted best practices. The Polymer group is leading the way, with Mozilla having its own spin, and individuals in the community are adding in their own opinions as web components start being adopted in real-world applications.
In this environment, we felt that the greatest tool that we could put in the hands of developers interested in web components was an understanding of how to develop facets of the user interface (UI) in a reusable manner that can also translate directly to web components if (and when) you decide to use them.
In this book we’ll be tackling the UI aspects for a common JavaScript widget, the dialog box. We’ll go from basic creation to a vanilla web component, and then look at using Polymer to abstract it, build it, and deploy it as a reusable custom HTML element.
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