3Building a Minimal Web App with Plain JS in Seven Steps
In this chapter, we show how to build a minimal front-end web application with plain JavaScript and Local Storage. The purpose of our example app is to manage information about books. That is, we deal with a single object type: Book, as depicted in the class diagram of Figure 3.1.
Figure 3.1 The object type Book.
The following table shows a sample data population for the model class Book:
Table 3.1 A collection of book objects represented as a table
ISBN
Title
Year
006251587X
Weaving the Web
2000
0465026567
Gödel, Escher, Bach
1999
0465030793
I Am A Strange Loop
2008
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