Mojito (Node.js MVC) Workshop by Keshavaprasad Seshadri, Avinash Chukka

2. Node.js MVC Framework
MOJITO WORKSHOP

3. AGENDA
• Installing mojito
• Write a simple weather app on the command line
• Extend the weather app to:
• Invoke other actions
• Show a different view on a iphone device
• Page with muliple mojits; lazy loading
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4. INSTALLING MOJITO
• Download and install node from http://nodejs.org/download/
• sudo npm install mojito-cli –g
• mojito version
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5. SIMPLE WEATHER APP
• Let’s write a simple app using mojito to do a YQL query to query
weather of a place and display it.
• mojito create app SimpleWeatherApp
• Edit package.json
• cd SimpleWeatherApp/
• mojito create mojit Weather
• Edit routes.json and application.js
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6. SIMPLE WEATHER APP
• Execute mojito to see the simple “Mojito is working” message:
• mojito start
• Edit model to fetch data from YQL, edit the controller and the
template to render the data.
• Execute mojito again.
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7. EXTEND THE SIMPLE WEATHER APP
• Let us now extend the simple weather app to fetch some more
data, such as forecast info.
• Let us see how mojitProy can be used to:
• Invoke another action and render its data.
• Refresh the view
• Modify the weather app to use a different view on iphone.
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8. PAGE WITH MULTIPLE MOJITS; LAZY LOADING
• Let us build a page with multiple mojits: a header mojit, a footer
mojit,and a body mojit.
• Then, let us see how to lazy load the footer mojit.
• Add “defer”: true in the config for the mojit in the
application.json
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9. Q&A

10. REFERENCES
• http://developer.yahoo.com/cocktails/mojito/
• The apps we did in the workshop can be found at
https://github.com/kbsbng/mojito-examples.
• My twitter handle: kbsbng
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11. THANK YOU