Front-End Engineering

Sameer P KarveApplications Developer

Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd

Presented at the Thakur College of Engineering & Technology (TCET),

Mumbai, INDIA

on 4th February 2014

Duration : 60 mins

What’s on the plate

ConceptsDevelopment

FlowLanguagesFrameworks &

toolsPerformance

tuningSocial APIsKnowledge Bases

Why bother ?Creative satisfactionAbundant scope for innovationWide audienceUser delightTime to marketHandling peak load

Designing for a fragmented worldBrowsersDevicesOSResolutionPitchAspect RatioOrientationBandwidth

1024 x 768800 x 600

1920 x 10801366 x 7201280 x 1024

4:3 16:9 Retina display

Aspects of developmentIndustry standards & best

practicesDesign patterns

◦Flyout menus, auto-suggest box◦Infinite list, carousel, flat UI

InternationalizationLocalizationSecurity

Languages

Browser coding Server coding

JSP (Java + EL + JSTL)

JSF

XML + XSL

Development flow

Wireframe

Sketch

Graphic Design

Mock

Working prototype

End product

Architecture

Left Brain ConceptsData-driven, OO, MVCGraceful degradationProgressive enhancementBrowser detectionFeature detectionFluid layoutsMobile first

Right Brain ConceptsSimplicityIntuitivenessUsabilityConsistencyAestheticsResponsiveness

Frameworks – 1

JS onlyCSS only

JS + CSS

Frameworks - 2Why do we need frameworks ?How to choose the right mix ?LicensingSecuritySupport

Online ToolsPixlr ExpressCodepen

PerformanceWhy performance mattersFactors affecting performanceProfilingPerformance improvement

◦Reducing HTTP requests◦Caching◦Content server

Web APIsFacebook APITwitter APIGoogle Maps API

Knowledge Bases

Stay up to dateFollow design trendsFollow draft specificationsLook out for new frameworksHone your skills through practiceStandards compliant coding

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