Dojo

Course Overview

The Dojo Training teaches participants how to build powerful JavaScript Ajax applications using the Dojo Toolkit Dijit and DojoX.

At the end of the training, participants will be able to:

  1. Understand Dojo’s API design and feature set
  2. Master the use of Dojo’s core features
  3. Manipulate and traverse the Document Object Model using Dojo’s DOM APIs
  4. Create and control your own class hierarch

Pre-requisite

Knowledge of JavaScript

Duration

3 days

Course Outline

  1. What Dojo is and isn’t
  2. Our first, basic Dojo script
  3. How to do things the Dojo way Asynchronous Modules and AMD Requiring the code you need Loading Dojo
  4. Baseless Dojo
  5. dojoConfig: Configuring how Dojo is loaded
  1. dojo/dom: Asking for an element by name
  2. What do I get back? DOMNodes and Nodes
  3. Creating nodes
  4. Placing nodes
  5. Removing nodes
  1. A different way of retrieving elements
  2. Using CSS Selectors (up to CSS3)
  3. Processing NodeLists
  1. Accessing style information
  2. Changing style settings
  1. Array enhancements
  2. Function enhancements
  3. Working with dates
  4. Working with numbers and strings
  1. Hooking up events with dojo/on
  2. Removing event handlers
  3. Distributing events across a NodeList
  4. Using dojo’s publish/subscribe model
  1. Ajax architecture
  2. Dojo and Ajax: dojo/request
  3. Typical Ajax tasks Changing the content of a node Form processing
  4. Processing data with Ajax JSON data XML data
  5. Other dojo/request capabilities
  1. dojo/declare(): Creating classes
  2. Defining methods and properties
  3. Inheritance and Mixins
  4. Constructors
  1. Declarative vs programmatic UI
  2. Form widgets
  3. Layout widgets
  4. Other widgets
  1. Using customizable properties
  2. On-the-fly
  1. From scratch
  2. Using a template
  3. Creating attributes, getters and setters
  1. Using OO
  2. Adding capabilities
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