Beginning Ractive.js is for people who want to learn how to build real-world, interactive applications, using the RactiveJS template library.
Originally created by the United Kingdom’s Guardian newspaper to produce news applications quickly for its online site, guardian.com, it has matured into a fully fledged, easy-to-use library for creating sites, where time is short, and results must be produced quickly.
Over the course of this book, I’ll take you on a journey through the library, showing you how easy it is to construct templates, take care of events, and manage data updates automatically using the library. We’ll cover such diverse topics as animation, data-binding, event management, and more – each will provide
a solid grounding in the use of Ractive, with lots of simple exercises, culminating in a full-size project to produce a basic e-commerce shopping cart and template page that you can use in your future projects.
Beginning Ractive.js is targeted to those who are familiar with HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, and want an alternative to some of the larger, more cumbersome templating libraries such as Angular – where we don’t have time to learn a whole new technology! I’ll also include lots of tips on how to use the library, and provide links to help with getting accustomed to using Ractive throughout the book.
