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.

• Writing Widget Controllers

How to create a basic widget controller for a specific integration technology.

• 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

• Asset Lookup and the FileResourceProvider

How CSS, HTML and other static assets are resolved and loaded.

• Writing Compositions

When simple pages are not enough.

• Configuring RequireJS for widgets and controls

How to configure RequireJS for widgets and controls with extraordinary needs.

• 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.