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Scala Programming Projects

You're reading from   Scala Programming Projects Build real-world projects using popular Scala frameworks such as Play, Akka, and Spark

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788397643
Length 398 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mikael Valot Mikael Valot
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Preface 1. Writing Your First Program FREE CHAPTER 2. Developing a Retirement Calculator 3. Handling Errors 4. Advanced Features 5. Type Classes 6. Online Shopping - Persistence 7. Online Shopping - REST API 8. Online Shopping - User Interface 9. Interactive Browser 10. Fetching and Persisting Bitcoin Market Data 11. Batch and Streaming Analytics 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Introducing the UI manager


At some point, we will need to have a class that is responsible for the workflow of the user experience. For example, when a user clicks on the Add to cart button, the product has to be added to the cart at the server level and the user interface has to be updated.

The UI manager takes responsibility for managing the workflow of the user experience, handling all communication with the server when needed, and is used as an entry point to start the Scala.js code. This is the main entry point of our client application when the application is executed in the browser.

For communicating with the server, we are going to use jQuery. This JavaScript library is widely used and is a reference in the JavaScript world.

This is one of the advantages of Scala.js. We can use existing JavaScript libraries, such as jQuery, from Scala. To use existing JavaScript libraries, we only need to define an interface, which is called a facade in Scala.js. The facade can be seen as an interface...

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