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Dojo: The Definitive Guide View Larger Image | Matthew A. Russell
O'Reilly Media, Paperback, Published June 2008, 400 pages, ISBN 0596516487 | List Price: $39.99
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Of all the Ajax-specific frameworks that have popped up in recent years, one
clearly stands out as the industrial strength solution. Dojo is not just another
JavaScript toolkit -- it's the JavaScript toolkit -- and Dojo:
The Definitive Guide demonstrates how to tame Dojo's extensive library
of utilities so that you can build rich and responsive web applications like
never before.
Dojo provides an end-to-end solution for development in the browser, including
everything from the core JavaScript library and turnkey widgets to build tools
and a testing framework. Its vibrant open source community keeps adding to Dojo's
arsenal, and this book provides an ideal companion to Dojo's official documentation.
Dojo: the Definitive Guide gives you the most thorough overview of
this toolkit available, showing you everything from how to create complex layouts
and form controls closely resembling those found in the most advanced desktop
applications with stock widgets, to advanced JavaScript idioms to AJAX and advanced
communication transports. With this definitive reference you get:
- A concise introduction to Dojo that covers everything through the version
1.1 release
- Well-explained examples, with scores of tested code samples, that let you
see Dojo in action
- A comprehensive reference to Dojo's standard JavaScript library (including
fundamental utilities in Base, Dojo's tiny but powerful kernel) that you'll
wonder how you ever lived without
- An extensive look at additional Core features, such as animations, drag-and-drop,
back-button handling, animations like wipe and slide, and more
- Exhaustive coverage of out-of-the-box Dijits (Dojo widgets) as well as definitive
coverage on how to create your own, either from scratch or building on existing
ones
- An itemized inventory of DojoX subprojects, the build tools, and the DOH,
Dojo's unit-testing framework that you can use with Dojo -- or anywhere else.
If you're a DHTML-toting web developer, you need to read this book -- whether
you're a one-person operation or part of an organization employing scores of
developers. Dojo packs the standard JavaScript library you've always wanted,
and Dojo: The Definitive Guide helps you transform your ideas into
working applications quickly by leveraging design concepts you already know.
About the Author
Matthew Russell is a computer scientist from middle Tennessee. Hacking and
writing are two activities essential to his renaissance man regimen.
Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews: 1 Average Customer Rating: Oct 2, 2008 Mike Addesa from Boston
Using Dojo? Read This!
Matthew Russell has written a truly excellent book on Dojo. In this particular space the landscape is rapidly transforming and Dojo is one of the best tools available to build beautiful, rich web applications. Russell's coverage of the toolkit couldn't be better and the rythymn of the book makes it easy and interesting to read. Russell tells you what your are about to learn, teaches you, peppers you with clear functional examples (and the tools to execute them), then double-checks to make sure you learned what you were supposed to, then you move on and start all over again on the next topic. Every once in awhile you think "wait, I missed something", and then you read "Don't worry about that just yet, full coverage is coming up in Chapter 12" and so you put your mind at ease until the full coverage of the topic, and you are set. This is one of the few tech books I sat down and read cover to cover in a few days time, I couldn't get enough. I have been doing Java Development for almost 10 years and Web Development for most of those 10. In the past few years my focus has been on RIA and it has been pretty heavy Dojo-related in the last year. I think the material is covered with a real expert / insider's knowledge of the toolkit. I think that although having some web development experience will make this an easier read, it is probably fine for someone fairly junior. In fact it is so well written I bet I could get my mom using dojo.query() in less than a week.
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