IT537

Front-end Web Development

Lecture 2.1

Armagan Amcalar

Feb 11th, 2017

Who am I?

Armagan Amcalar
Head of Software Engineering @ unu GmbH
Founder @ Lonca Works

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dovecote

cote
semaver
vieux

pedalboard.js

tartJS
geneJS
jira-bot

AUTHORED ON GITHUB

What will we cover?

Prototyping

UI architectures & design patterns — MVC, MVVM

JS frameworks — Angular, React

CSS — CSS3 and processors

GitHub & Trello — Code & issue management

Node.js — Backend!

Hybrid apps — Raw performance

Testing

Collaboration — The real deal

Open-source culture — Giving back to the community

...and a lot more.

Project categories

  1. A web application with social login and integrations — Easy
     
  2. 2. A desktop application with native APIs: file access, menus, clipboard, etc. — Easy
     
  3. A hybrid mobile application with native APIs: camera, bluetooth, maps, etc. — Hard
     
  4. A modern front-end framework without runtime — Insane

Deliverables timeline

  1. Proposals (10%)
    Feb 16th
     
  2. Initial sketches / wireframes (15%)
    Feb 26th
     
  3. First demos (25%)
    March 9th - March 12th
     
  4. Final demos (30%)
    March 23rd - March 26th

Concepts

User Interface

Graphical User Interface

User Experience

Front-end

Back-end

Client

Server

Web page

Web application
Framework
Library

Build tools

Prototyping

Maintenance

Kanban

git clone

git pull

git push

git branch

GitHub pull request

JavaScript basics

On Feb 16th;

Prototyping with Balsamiq

HTML & CSS

Example apps

References