Manuals

Before starting with the manuals, make sure that you know what LaxarJS is about, and that you are familiar with the core concepts. If you're already developing your first widgets and want to know which programmatic APIs are provided by LaxarJS, have a look at the API docs.

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.

• Creating an Adapter for a new Widget Technology

  Tired of writing widgets in AngularJS? Learn how to adapt any MVC technology for creating LaxarJS widgets.