Pluralsight Courses

In this course, Interacting with Data using jQuery and AJAX you'll learn to make Ajax calls using jQuery. First, you'll explore the history of Ajax with the JavaScript language. Next, you'll discover how to use Promises and jQuery to retrieve and submit data via a Web API server. Finally, you'll learn how to build an HTML form and submit user data using jQuery objects and methods. When you're finished with this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge of jQuery Ajax needed to manipulate data on an HTML page, retrieve, and submit that data via a Web API server.

Offline web applications are becoming very prevalent today. In order to create an offline web application, you must take into account where to store data. A great option is to use PouchDB. In this course, PouchDB Playbook: Simplify Offline Web Application Storage, you will learn to store and retrieve data from a client-side database using PouchDB's NoSQL API. First, you will see how to add, edit, and delete documents, and perform bulk update and retrieval. Then, you will discover how to use Mango queries and the find() API. Finally, you will learn to use map and reduce queries to create design documents and gather statistics. By the time you are finished, you will have enough knowledge to start using PouchDB immediately in your own offline web application.

This course will use a step-by-step approach for showing the student how to build several UI widgets using HTML, HTML 5, CSS/CSS3 and Bootstrap. The overall project for this course is a simple Music Site that shows how to build all these widgets. There will be step-by-step demos for each module to illustrate the concepts of building custom UI widgets. We will use Visual Studio 2013 to build the HTML, however, any editor can be used as we will not be using any Microsoft-specific technology. The concepts in this course can be applied equally to PHP, MVC, Web Forms, or any web development system. At the end of the course the student will have built several ready-to-use UI widgets they can incorporate into their own web projects right away.