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- Sprache: Englisch
Opa is a full-stack Open Source web development framework for JavaScript that lets you write secure and scalable web applications. It generates standard Node.js/MongoDB applications, natively supports HTML5 and CSS and automates many aspects of modern web application programming. It handles all aspects of web programming written in one consistent language and compiled to web standards.Opa Application Development is a practical,hands-on guide that provides you with a number of step-by-step exercises. It covers almost all aspects of developing a web application with Opa, which will help you take advantage of the real power of Opa, as well as building a secure, powerful web application rapidly.Opa Application Development dives into all concepts and components required to build a web application with Opa. The first half of this book shows you all of the basic building blocks that you will need to develop an Opa application, including the syntax of Opa, web development aspects, client and server communication and slicing, plugin, database, and so on. By the end of the book you will have yourself created a complete web application along with a game: Pacman!
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Opa Application Development
Opa Application Development
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First published: June 2013
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Li Wenbo
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Joseph Goldman
Alok Menghrajani
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About the Author
Li Wenbo studied Computer Science and Technology at Wuhan University, graduating with a master's degree. He has two years experience working as a Software Engineer in a leading telecom company in China. He has been doing web development for about 8 years, ever since he was a student at Wuhan University. He is familiar with a lot of programming languages such as C/C++, Java, JavaScript, PHP, and so on, and he has a passion for new things and technologies. Li tried the Opa framework last year and found it very interesting. He then participated in an Opa challenge and won the first prize.
Li Wenbo is now a freelance developer and owns a small studio in Wuhan, China.
About the Reviewers
Joseph Goldman is an experienced freelance programmer who cut his teeth on 8086 Assembler before joining the Homo Sapiens race by learning to walk upright and adopting more conversational and universal programming languages such as C, Objective C, Smalltalk, Pascal, and more. Over his illustrious 30 year career, he has programmed for VAX under VMS, Sun Microsystems work stations, MS DOS 8088 - Pentium CPUs, MS Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux. A tireless early adopter of new programming paradigms and languages, he is very fond of the new generation of functional and object-oriented programming languages, such as Google's Dart, Opa, Scala, and more, as well as other innovative language designs, most notably REBOL. Today, he specializes in writing web apps and mobile apps for iOS and Android platforms, both smart phones as well as tablets. He is self-employed and can be reached at <[email protected]>. In the late 1990s, Mr. Goldman co-authored REBOL - The Official Guide that was published in the year 2000 by Osborne McGraw-Hill.
Alok Menghrajani Computer Science at EPFL and CMU. He graduated in 2005. He then started working in the field of web security and is currently an engineer at Facebook.
Alok got the opportunity to learn Opa when it was open sourced. He realized the potential this framework offered to improve web development; Opa helps build web applications faster and in a safer way.
He has made various contributions to Opa: reporting bugs, providing feedback to the core team, and helping out with community events such as hackathons.
He is also the author of http://pixlpaste.com/, a web application to share screenshots and images written in Opa.
He has also worked on Opa: Up and Running and JavaScript for PHP Developers.
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Preface
Opa Application Development dives into all the concepts and components required to build a web application with Opa. The first half of this book shows the basic building blocks that you will need to develop an Opa application, including the syntax of Opa, web development aspects, client and server communication, as well as slicing, plugins, databases, and so on.
Opa is a full-stack open source web development framework for JavaScript that lets you write secure and scalable web applications. It generates the standard Node.js and MongoDB applications, natively supports HTML5 and CSS, and automates many aspects of modern web application programming. It handles all aspects of web programming written in one consistent language and is compiled to web standards.
This book is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with a number of step-by-step exercises. It covers almost all the aspects of developing a web application with Opa, which will help you take advantage of the real power of Opa to build secure and powerful web applications rapidly.
What this book covers
Chapter 1, Getting Started with Opa, introduces how to install and set up an Opa development environment.
Chapter 2, Basic Syntax, covers the basic syntax of Opa.
Chapter 3, Developing Web Applications, introduces the fundamental knowledge about developing a web application with Opa.
Chapter 4, Using Bootstrap, introduces how to use Bootstrap in Opa when developing a web application.
Chapter 5, Communicating Between Client and Server, covers client and server slicing and communicating.
Chapter 6, Binding with Other Languages, explains how to bind JavaScript and Node.js to Opa.
Chapter 7, Working with Databases, explains everything about storing, updating, and querying data in a database with MongoDB as a backend.
Chapter 8, Internationalization, introduces the internationalization approach of Opa.
Chapter 9, Building a Chat Application, explains how to build a web chat application with Opa.
Chapter 10, Building a Game – Pacman, explains how to handle image and audio using a canvas when building a Pacman game.
Chapter 11, Building a Social Mobile Application – LiveRoom, explains how to build a social mobile application with Opa.
What you need for this book
Required knowledge for this book is as follows:
Software required for this book is as follows:
Who this book is for
This book is written for web developers who want to get started with the Opa framework and who want to build web applications with it. Web development experience is assumed and would be helpful for understanding this book.
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Chapter 1. Getting Started with Opa
This chapter shows how to install Opa and set its environment. A simple Opa program will also be shown to give a first glimpse of Opa programming.
Installing Opa
This section is about installation and configuration of Opa. You
