Front End Technologies

At the moment of writing this documentation JavaScript is one of the most popular programming language in the world.

Web applications became more complex than ever. Every web application have to manage many advanced features like:

  • Responsive design for different devices

  • High Reliability

  • Soft Failing

  • Caching

  • Offline

  • Notification

The big growth of the web required to JavaScript to become a more expressive language:

  • do more with less (lines of code)

  • simpler structures (for async)

The continual upward growth of JavaScript From the second decade of 2000 produced an explosion of new technologies, JavaScript language features and frameworks to meet this need.

A so big set of technologies often confuses the developers

front end evolution

The JavaScript ecosystem evolution

The scope of this module is to explore the technologies behind MapStore.

Note

A pre-requirement of this section a basic knowledge of:

  • HTML

  • CSS

  • JavaScript.

Following this section, the student will be able to fill his gaps and then approach the development of MapStore.

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References:

Here a set of Useful links: