I have created the second video in the JavaScript Bushido series.

In this video I am taking a step back and going to the basics.

Installing Qooxdoo from github, and starting your first project.

To retrieve qooxdoo from command line you have to type

  bash> git clone https://github.com/qooxdoo/qooxdoo.git 

This will take some time to complete the download because a git repository contains the complete history. Once the download completes you can create a new project through

  bash> mkdir workspace && cd workspace && ../qooxdoo/create-application.py --name=DemoApp
  bash> cd DemoApp && ./generate.py build

The final result:

This will generate a simple push button on a web page.

Now granted that this is not the coolest web page out there but you have only spent about 5 minutes to create it. Now if you spend some more time on it you can eventually create more complex applications, like a Random Password Generator ( approx 100 lines of code ) or a simple calculator ( approx 200 lines of code ).

As a matter of fact you can create quite complex applications which natively support multiple languages, multiple Themes, multiple icon sets etc … . I believe if you have an idea of a complex web based application you will find a solution with Qooxdoo.

As with the first episode, you can checkout the code online Here …

Questions or suggestions ?

Please don’t hesitate to leave a comment below if you have questions or suggestions. I had fun creating this short tutorial and I hope it is useful to you.