Windows 8 Loves Web Developers
Lauri Svan, SC5 | 5.3.2013
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What Windows 8 Means for Me?
• Fast, HTML5 compliant browser engine
• Growing and potentially huge ecosystem of
consumer and enterprise users
• Access to system services like a native app
• New conventions I need to learn and live with
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HTML5 and Windows 8 – Best of the Both Worlds?
Windows 8 – a Holistic Developer Offering
• It feels a bit overwhelming at start
• But you will soon start seeing familiar patterns
• It is HTML5, CSS and JavaScript after all
• Your skills will transfer
• But your existing coding patterns might not
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Demo: Hacking a
bit with Visual
Studio & Blender
Régis
Laurent
Director of Operations,
Global Knowledge
Competencies include:
Gold Learning
Silver System Management
Browser Runtime
WinJS.UI
WinJS API
Utility Libraries
Page Specific
Logic
Pages
Data Sources
Utility Libraries
Backbone.js
jQuery
Misc. Code
Templates
Views
Models
Anatomy of a Windows 8 HTML5 App
What do I Mean by Different? Tools.
Windows 8
Elsewhere
NuGet
Bower, NPM
WinRT
Cordova (ex. PhoneGap)
Git (soon integrated into Visual Studio)
Git
Visual Studio + Expression Blend
Eclipse
Node.js (+ CygWin)
Node.js
Windows 8 on Parallels on OS/X
OS/X
What do I Mean by Different? Frameworks.
Windows 8
Elsewhere
WinJS UI
Bootstrap, jQuery Mobile
WinJS.UI
Backbone.js
-ms-grid styles
Semantic.gs
none (not needed)
Modernizr
none (a lot of need)
jQuery
none (no need yet)
Require.js
WinJS APIs (HTML5?)
HTML5 APIs, Cordova API
Windows 8 Specific vs. Common
It is silly to reinvent the wheel if it already works
Grid – it is better than the one you are used to
Your existing CSS code will likely be wasted
XHRs work both normal way and with WinJS
Implement WinJS UI specific interfaces/adapters
for your API (some reuse possible!)
You will need to learn the conventions of
packaging Windows 8 apps, including splash
screens, tiles etc.
Nothing stops you adding a Windows 8 subproject
into your project.
e.g. RequireJS and Grunt, Git work all fine
A good list of alternatives when you cannot use
the 3rd party libraries
As long as they don’t break the security sandbox,
they should be fine.
My App in Windows 8 - It the Same Anymore?
• Your application will be a separate entity, not a
result of a build parametrization
• You will have a separate UI skeleton with different
HTML, and CSS
• You may share non-UI (and some UI) libraries
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Demo: Using
RequireJS, jQuery
and D3 Libraries in
Windows 8 App
Régis
Laurent
Director of Operations,
Global Knowledge
Competencies include:
Gold Learning
Silver System Management
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