Dojo 2.0: Modular, Mobile, and Reinventing Web App Development

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Dojo Toolkit: Project Goals Uni ed JavaScript toolkit for superior web and mobile apps Fill the Gaps (browsers, platforms) Fast, Powerful, Eﬃcient, Modular, Extensible, Professional Business-friendly: grids, charts, forms, & data Rich UI widgets (calendars, 3D carousel, etc) Push the limits (vector graphics/WebGL, oﬄine, html5, ...) De ne and adopt defacto standards (AMD, JSON Schema) Developer productivity and tools Open, free, & liberally licensed© SitePen, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Philosophy Push the limits (vector graphics/WebGL, oﬄine, HTML5, ...) De ne and adopt defacto standards (AMD, JSON Schema) Developer productivity and tools Open, free, & liberally licensed© SitePen, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Whats Driving Us? Less is more uxebu experiments and embedJS Microtoolkits Splitting things out, bringing them back together Mobile Evolution of loaders/modules Evolution of browsers/HTML5© SitePen, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Evolution of Web App Development Web 1.0 Dumb client, smart server Focus on HTML & CSS, "separation of markup and presentation"© SitePen, Inc. All Rights Reserved https://secure.ﬂickr.com/photos/dylans/3439037456/

Evolution of Web App Development Web 2.0 Smarter client, smart server, con ict Initial break of many paradigms Search indexing, history, navigation Didnt really account for mobile DOM-centric Ajax: sort of real-time© SitePen, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Revolution: Separation of Data and UX Users want access to data, info in a variety of experiences relevant to their current context Aggregation User Interfaces and experiences Challenging past assumptions statelessness, truly embracing REST abusing markup for "separation of markup and presentation" control and federation of data© SitePen, Inc. All Rights Reserved https://secure.ﬂickr.com/photos/dylans/5916167025/

Major Changes and Additions (1.6) Dojo Object Store Feature detection/has.js LESS CSS framework HTML5 data attributes AMD (Asynchronous module de nition) Android, IE9, FF4+ support dojox.socket, Stateful Dojo Web Builder Tutorials, Docs© SitePen, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Data Access: Dojo Object Store Work on HTML5 IndexedDB recommendation key/value approach to data access local storage but useful in other contexts accessing data stores (JSON, XML, REST, etc.) matches nicely with NoSQL implemented in Persevere (middleware for SSJS, Node or Narwhal+Jack) very clean approach to getting and setting data modular layering of functionality like noti cations© SitePen, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Layout Widgets Made up of containers and panes Dijit Panes t inside of the containers Containers add controls for how panes are viewed Excellent for dealing with height-related design issues© SitePen, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Dialogs and Tooltips Modal Dialog Fixes iframe/Flash/Java/etc bleed through problem Dialogs can launch dialogs Tooltips can self-size and display where there’s a best t Great for in-place content detail© SitePen, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Dojo, Dijit, DojoX, and HTML Forms Forms are an essential component to most websites Form validation can be tedious, time-consuming Dojo, Dijit, and DojoX enhance forms by: providing an expansive set of form widgets to make form elements more usable and attractive providing a validation library to allow developers to work more eﬃciently and avoid writing common validation functions and regular expressions providing a form manager to manage widget life cycle providing a framework by which developers may create their custom widgets© SitePen, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Dijit Form Widgets Button RadioButton CheckBox Select ComboBox Textarea CurrencyTextBox TextBox DateTextBox TimeTextBox DropDownButton FilteringSelect ...and more! MultiSelect NumberSpinner© SitePen, Inc. All Rights Reserved

DojoX Enhanced Form Widgets BusyButton RadioStack CheckedMultiSelect Rating FileInput TimeSpinner FileUploader VerticalRangeSlider HorizontalRangeSlider Manager ..and more! MultiComboBox PasswordValidator© SitePen, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Form Validation with dojox.validate Contains numerous regular expressions to validate common input formats, including: E-mail URL Phone Number Credit Card Validation regular expressions may be locale-speci c Highly extendable; add your own validations! Allows you to quickly implement validation; no need to start from scratch. Displays error icon and tooltip for invalid elds© SitePen, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Application Controller: dojox.app We don’t just build websites, we build web applications, so why just build mobile websites? dojox.app is a full mobile web application controller. Manages scenes Asyncronously loads the application’s resources as they are needed. Uses pub/sub for application-wide communication. Provides commonly used widgets (AlertDialog, TextBox, ListSelector) for full-scale mobile apps.© SitePen, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Major Changes and Additions (1.7) Query, events refactor (including delegation) AMD refactor complete (async loader) Mobile Blackberry 6+ Touch events in Dijit dojox.app Dojo Foundation Packages dgrid, CPM, NPM Tutorials, docs, Maqetta© SitePen, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Squeezing Performance Dojo Nano dojo/store Dojo Base (Model) Automated build with dependency resolution, AMD & has.js optimized builds, all from one place with full Dijit (View) licensing and support. dojox Grid© SitePen, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Dojo Mobile Cross Platform Mobile WebApps Started in Dojo 1.5 Simple mobile UI paradigms, Support for many HTML5 same data interactions features and beyond Native or general themes Open source (BSD) Grids, charts, maps, gauges© SitePen, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Key Paradigms Lightweight Dojo-based widgets for mobile webapps Native access is not in the scope of Dojo Mobile Works well with PhoneGap Develop device-speci c or device-neutral look & feel CSS themes for iOS, Android, Blackberry devices iOS, Android, and Blackberry style controls and widgets A complete mobile widget framework Fully integrated part of Dojo, yet lightweight AMD compliant with minimal base dependencies Reuse application code across devices Server technology agnostic© SitePen, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Touch and Scroll dojox.mobile manages scrolling to allow for native paging simulation A variety of layout container widgets are available which can respond to scrolling in diﬀerent ways (Flippable View, Scrollable View) Touch events are synchronized in mobile and desktop environments for more eﬃcient development© SitePen, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Layout, Scenes, & Animations Dojo Mobile creates layouts and animations which are consistent with the mobile OS. You can use an unlimited number of scenes The simple API allows you to move from scene to scene via basic moveTo attributes Layout widgets have been constructed to be lightweight, and can be created declaratively or programmatically. CSS Animations are primary animation source (faster) -- JavaScript is used primarily as a fallback.© SitePen, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Side-by-side Tablet Layout vs. Phones Independently scrollable content Fixed Position HeaderSingle application can automatically adjust to side-by-side layout based on detection of screen dimensions© SitePen, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Business Charts Mobile enablement and optimizations for all existing Dojo chart types! Themes adapted to small screen Touch support for scrolling and panning Interactive Legends Smart label layouts Chart Titles© SitePen, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Dojo Mobile 1.8 Under Development Accordion Grid Grid Layout Icon container Form panel and Badge Cube transition Menu Dialog Tree map Editable List Audio player Swap transition Video player© SitePen, Inc. All Rights Reserved

DOM-based Element Creation innerHTML no longer fastest approach Direct DOM creation makes easy to reference, connect, modify elements at every step in rendering Plugins are super simple Tree is <100 lines of code!© SitePen, Inc. All Rights Reserved

CSS Modularity Proper skin vs structure separation Easing skinning with generic classes Utilizes XStyle Framework for shimming and extending CSS Handles loading CSS Parsing CSS Uses CSS plugins to handle speci c shims and extensions© SitePen, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Feature Comparison dGrid dojox.grid.DataGrid dojox.grid.EnhancedGrid jqGrid extJS Grid Panel COLUMN RESIZE Yes Buggy Buggy Yes Yes COLUMN SORT Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes COLUMN HIDEABLE No Yes Yes Yes Yes FOLLOWS AMD FORMAT Yes Yes (1.7+) Yes (1.7+) No No SUPPORTS DECLARATIVE INSTANTIATION / Yes - IP Yes Yes No No STRUCTURE NATIVE DOJO.DATA SUPPORT No Yes Yes N/A N/A NATIVE DOJO.STORE SUPPORT Yes No No N/A N/A SUPPORT FOR POPULATING DIRECTLY FROM Yes No No Yes Yes ARRAY STRUCTURE FROM HTML Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes COMPLEX STRUCTURE (SUBROWS, Yes Yes Yes (Subgrids) Yes COLUMNSETS/VIEWS) ROW GROUPING No No ? Yes Yes DND - ROW Yes - IP No Yes Yes Yes DND - CELL ? No Yes Yes Yes DND - COLUMN Yes - IP No Yes Yes Yes DND - MULTIPLE SELECT Yes No Yes (contiguous only) ? ? DND - TREE ? No ? ? Yes CELL EDIT Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes© SitePen, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Feature Comparison (Continued) dGrid dojox.grid.DataGrid dojox.grid.EnhancedGrid jqGrid extJS Grid Panel CELL WIDGETS Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes INDIRECT SELECTION Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes PAGINATION No Not OOTB Yes (plugin) Yes Yes CELL FORMATTING Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes(Renderers) TREE SUPPORT Yes Yes (TreeGrid) ? Yes Yes MOBILE SUPPORT Yes ? ? ? ? FILTER UI No No Yes (plugin) Yes Yes PRINT EXPORT No No Yes (plugin) No Yes (plugin) SEARCH No No Yes (plugin) Yes Yes (plugin) DECLARATIVE CONTEXT MENUS No No Yes (plugin) Yes(Row) Yes NESTED SORTING No No Yes (plugin) No Yes A11Y Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes I18N Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes COMPOUND EDITORS (2 OR MORE IN ONE No No No No No CELL) EXCEL STYLE FORMULA EDITOR No No No No No MICRO-TEMPLATES VIRTUAL PAGING Yes Yes Yes LICENSE AFL/BSD AFL/BSD AFL/BSD MIT/GPL GPLv3© SitePen, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Selection Select rows via keyboard, mouse, or touch. Selection modes: extended (standard default), single, multiple, none Fires DOM events for selections to easily listen for selection changes Row or cell level selection Selectors - editor driven selection© SitePen, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Themes Claro, Tundra, Soria, Nihilo, Squid, Sage, Slate Compatible with jQuery Themeroller for generic styling ui-widget-content, ui-widget-header, ui-state-default, ui-state- active, ui-state-highlight© SitePen, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Plans for Dojo 1.8+ API Clean-up, Further Split of Features Compose (improved declare), xstyle, put-selector, Dijit/Widget Remove weight of deprecated APIs DojoX completely moved to foundation packages Releases Performance test suite across entire toolkit, and eventd Independent releases of packages, roll out package release sets Support major HTML5, mobile, modern browser features Web Builder and Dojo Foundation Packages integration Tools support improvements© SitePen, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Foundation Structure The Dojo Foundation is the home of great 100-point open source projects, created by extraordinary people and companies to solve important problems. 501(c)(6) non-pro t foundation just enough foundation without bureaucracy or excessive process 5 member board Toolkit project lead council (1 per project) Voting by committers (generally through mailing lists) Committers nominated by project, reviewed by board Projects are very autonomous All code contributed through CLAs© SitePen, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Major Contributors & Users AOL, IBM, SitePen, TIBCO 800 Flowers, Abbott Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, ADP, ASU, Bank of Montréal, Blue Coat Systems, Bottomline Technologies, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Brocade, BMW, Calabrio, Cambridge Semantics, Carsoni ed Treehouse, CGI, Chase, Cheesecake Factory, Chess.com, Chill.com, Cisco, Citi, Coventry Healthcare, Cox, Daimler, Disney, Eclipse Orion, ESRI, Eye-Fi, Fidelity Investments, Field Aware, Fiserv, Google, Intalio (WebTide), KLP, Lemonade, Lufthansa, Marriott, Mirapoint, Mozilla, Namesake, Napster, NASA, NOAA, OpenClass, Oracle (Sun), Orange, Pearson, Pershing, Premier, QBE, Serena Software, Shell, Thomson Reuters, UK, Uniface, USA, uxebu, Verizon Wireless, Vidéotron, vmware (Spring), Vodafone, Vodori Pepper, Wall Street Journal, Williams-Sonoma, Zend, and thousands more...© SitePen, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Getting Started Hello Dojo: http://dojotoolkit.org/documentation/tutorials/ 1.6/hello_dojo Quick Start Guide: http://www.sitepen.com/blog/series/ dojo-quick-start-guide/ Start a Dojo project: http://www.sitepen.com/blog/ 2011/05/04/what-is-the-best-way-to-start-a-dojo-project/ Dojo Boilerplate: https://github.com/csnover/dojo- boilerplate dgrid: http://www.sitepen.com/blog/2011/10/26/ introducing-the-next-grid-dgrid/© SitePen, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Result: Modular Tools Tools to mix and match to Modular enough for very create your app simple projects, exible and Separate data from UI logic consistent enough to handle simple and seamlessly the most challenging, feature- rich web apps© SitePen, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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