JavaScript for Line of Business Applications

This article is a simple tutorial designed to teach you some fundamental skills for creating cross platform web applications. You will build a sample School Plan app, which will provide a dynamic “app-like” experience across many different platforms and work offline. It will use Apache Cordova and Mozilla’s Brick web components.

About a week or so ago, Mozilla announced the release of Brick. Brick is a set of components based on the W3C standard for Web Components. It is essentially a way to create your own HTML tags and have them rendered out on the client. Anyone who has ever downloaded a UI library knows that there is a strong need for this. Imagine a developer who does not have good JavaScript experience. Instead of having to learn something like jQuery UI to add tabs to their application they can simply include a library and use tags to write out their HTML. We aren't quite there yet but it's approaching.