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SAPUI5 / OpenUI5 series

This series contains some of my findings while studying the implementation details of SAPUI5 / OpenUI5, yet another Javascript MVC framework developed by SAP.

Table of Contents

• SAPUI5 walkthrough and dive in (tutorial source code can be found here)
  • Step 1: Hello World! Where it all began
    • OO in JavaScript
    • JavaScript function, object, prototype, constructor, proto relationships illustrated
    • What does createClass method offer?
    • How does prototype object get enriched?
  • Step 3: Controls. How does controls work?
    • How does lazy require work?
    • How does a control module get requested, loaded and executed?
    • How does a control object get created?
    • How does a control object get turned into HTML?
  • Step 6: Modules. How does modules work?
    • How does a module get defined?
    • How does a module get consumed?
    • What are the module states available?
    • How does a module get loaded?
    • How does a module get executed?
    • How does a module get made available to global name space?
  • Step 7: JSON Model. How does two way data-binding work?
  • Step 8: Translatable Texts. How does i18n work?
    • How does UI5 pick up the browser language setting?
    • How does the i18n files get loaded?
    • How does the parameters get evaluated?
• How does X work?
  • How does bindAggregation work?

AngularJS series

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