June 2008
Intermediate to advanced
488 pages
15h 3m
English
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Prepping for Development
You don't need any fancy tools nor do you have to be able to configure a beast of a web server like Apache to learn how to develop with Dojo. In fact, very few examples in this entire book require you to interact with a web server at all. Most resources will be resolved via relative paths on your local machine or they will be cross-domain loaded, so for the most part, it's just you, your favorite text editor, and your web browser.
There are three primary ways you can download Dojo and prep for development: downloading an official release, checking out the latest and greatest from Subversion, and using a cross-domain (XDomain) build that's available from AOL's Content Developer Network (CDN). Let's walk through each of these options. Although downloading an official release to your local machine may be the most typical approach, there can be specific value in the other approaches as well.
Getting Dojo
There are three primary ways you can use Dojo: downloading an official release to your local environment, checking out a copy from Subversion to your local environment, and using an XDomain build from AOL's CDN. This section walks you through each of these options.
Downloading an official release
Downloading the latest official Dojo release is by far the most traditional way to prep for development. An "official" release is really nothing more than a tagged, blessed snapshot from the Subversion repository that has been well-tested and that comes with some helpful ...
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