Manuals

Before starting with the manuals, make sure that you know what LaxarJS is about, and that you are familiar with the core concepts.

Basic Manuals

• Widgets and Activities

Learn about the building blocks of a LaxarJS application.

• Writing Pages

  A step-by-step introduction to writing layouts and pages for a LaxarJS application.

• Installing Third Party Widgets

Learn how to integrate and leverage existing widgets and activities.

• Flow and Places

  Creating a flow through the pages and make the addressable as places.

• Events

  How to communicate between widgets using topics on the event bus.

• Creating Themes

  How to create a custom, pluggable style for your widgets and applications.

• Providing Controls

  How to create reusable, interactive elements that support themes.

• Infrastructure and Tools

  What happens when a LaxarJS application starts, and how its assets are prepared.

Advanced Manuals

• Writing Compositions

  When simple pages are not enough.

• Configuration

  Documents the LaxarJS configuration API which can be used to configure widgets, and the builtin configuration options.

• Internationalization (i18n)

  Explains how to leverage the LaxarJS event bus and APIs when writing internationalized applications.