SproutCore Web Application Development电子书

SproutCore Web Application Development

Table of Contents

SproutCore Web Application Development

Credits

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About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Introducing SproutCore

Understanding the SproutCore approach

Knowing when SproutCore is the right choice

Building your first SproutCore application

Installing SproutCore

Installing Ruby

Installing the SproutCore gem

Creating a project

Adding an app to the project

Designing your user interface

Modeling your data

Connecting it all together

Working with user input

Summary

2. The Runtime Environment

Building on SproutCore's object model

Using mixins to share functionality

Working with properties and computed properties

Observing properties for instant updates

Binding properties for error-free consistency

Working with enumerables

SC.Array

SC.Set

Observing enumerables

Observing properties on enumerable items

Understanding the run loop

Summary

3. The View Layer

MVC in SproutCore

Understanding the View layer

Becoming familiar with SC.View and SC.Pane

Organizing panes using SC.Page

Laying out views

Adjusting the layout

Animating the layout

Styling views

Rendering custom views

Updating custom views

Responding to user events in custom views

Summary

4. The Model Layer

Understanding the Model and Data Interface layers

Introducing the data store

Defining your data model

Creating custom attribute properties

Defining record relationships

Following the life cycle of SC.Record

Loaded records (READY_CLEAN)

Unloaded records (EMPTY)

To be read records (BUSY_LOADING and BUSY_REFRESH)

To be created records (READY_NEW)

To be updated records (READY_DIRTY)

To be destroyed records (DESTROYED_DIRTY)

Querying the store

Synchronizing data with a remote data source

Implementing remote data source adaptors

Reading records

Creating, updating, and destroying records

Summary

5. The Controller Layer

Understanding the Controller and Application State layers

Working with SproutCore's controllers

SC.ArrayController

SC.TreeController

Designing with statecharts

Avoiding pitfalls with statecharts

Coding with statecharts

Summary

6. Testing, Building, and Deploying

Unit testing SproutCore apps

Viewing unit test results

Using frameworks and modules

Building and deploying apps

Additional configuration options

Summary

Index