ActionScript Developer's Guide to Robotlegs [ACTIONSCRIPT DEVELOPERS GT ROB] [Paperback]

by Joel Hooks

About the Book: ActionScript Developer's Guide to Robotlegs Robotlegs is a standout among the ActionScript 3 development frameworks available today. With it, Flash, Flex, and AIR developers can create well-architected, testable, and flexible Rich Internet Applications-fast. This concise guide shows you how the light footprint and focused scope of this open source framework not only solves your immediate coding problems, it helps you gain insight into AS3 architecture on a much deeper level. The authors provide a walkthrough of specific features in two applications they've written in Robotlegs, complete with code for each application as a whole. You'll learn how to achieve a balance of flexibility and consistency in your own projects. Solve 80% of your coding problems with 20% of the API Gain code-base flexibility with automated Dependency Injection Learn the anatomy of a Robotlegs application Understand the relationships between models, services, control code, and views in the framework's MVCS architecture See how the Robotlegs' approach facilitates Test Driven Development (TDD) Pick up practical methods for architecting Robotlegs solutions Get expert insights to power-up your existing Robotlegs code Contents Chapter 1 Robotlegs is a lightweight framework for ActionScript 3 Chapter 2 The Robotlegs dream... Chapter 3 Anatomy of a Robotlegs application Chapter 4 Automated Dependency Injection Chapter 5 The Robotlegs context in action Chapter 6 The CommandMap in action Chapter 7 Models and services: How are they different? Chapter 8 Connecting views with Mediators Chapter 9 Working with Robotlegs: Rich Examples Chapter 10 Testing your Robotlegs application Chapter 11 Power-ups Appendix Troubleshooting tips Appendix Swiftsuspenders: The power behind the Robotlegs Injector Colophon About the Authors: Lindsey Fallow, Joel Hooks Joel Hooks is a Flash Platform developer with experience inActionscript 3, Flex, and Python. Joel spent the first 13 years of his professional c

Genres: Programming

160 pages, Paperback

First published August 8, 2011

Reviews

[Jordan Isaman · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a fantastic book. I learned a lot about AS 3 and the primary design pattern in robotlegs, MVCS.