Getting Started with Twitter Flight -- Table of Contents -- Getting Started with Twitter Flight -- Credits -- Foreword -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. What is Flight? -- Who made Flight? -- How does Flight work? -- Event-driven interfaces -- Scalable architecture -- No parent-child relationships -- No spaghetti code -- Promoting reusability with well-defined interfaces -- The missing model -- Simplification -- Reducing boilerplate -- Summary -- 2. The Advantages of Flight -- Simplicity -- Efficient complexity management -- Reusability -- Agnostic architecture -- Improved Performance -- Well-organized freedom -- Summary -- 3. Flight in the Wild -- Flight at Twitter -- Better performance -- A manageable codebase -- Quotes from developers -- On refactoring -- On Flight's component architecture -- Open source Flight projects -- TodoMVC -- Components for web applications -- Extending Flight with two-way data binding -- Summary -- 4. Building a Flight Application -- Scaffolding a Flight application with Yo -- Installing Yo -- Understanding the application structure -- Running the application -- Creating custom applications -- Using Flight without a module loader -- Troubleshooting -- Debugging -- Summary -- 5. Components -- What is a component? -- Component types -- Mixins -- Creating your first component -- Attaching components to the DOM -- Performing actions on component initialization -- Summary -- 6. UI Components -- Attaching components to existing HTML -- Listening for browser events -- Attaching event handlers.

Defining event handlers -- Finding DOM nodes -- Setting default attributes -- Using attributes to select nodes -- Triggering custom events in Flight -- Triggering events on specific elements -- Event names -- Event data -- Modifying the DOM -- Summary -- 7. Data Components -- What is a data component? -- Attaching data components -- Naming data events -- Creating a data component -- Listening for UI events -- Event handlers -- Triggering data events -- Completing the task_data component -- handleNeedsTask -- handleNeedsTasks -- handleTaskCompleted -- Error handling -- Handling data events -- Summary -- 8. Event Naming -- The importance of event names -- Events are not instructions -- Suggested naming conventions -- Summary -- 9. Mixins -- What are mixins? -- When to use mixins -- How do mixins work? -- Creating mixins -- Using mixins -- Mixin priority -- Creating your first mixin -- Mixing storage into taskData -- Initializing the task list from storage -- Extending existing methods -- before and after -- around -- Advice priority for components and mixins -- Mixing mixins into mixins -- Summary -- 10. Templating and Event Delegation -- Generating template objects from DOM nodes -- Constructing templates in components -- Creating a templating mixin -- Server-side compilation -- Using HTML to determine state -- Working with dynamic HTML - event delegation -- Adding delegated events to task_list -- Completing a task -- Summary -- 11. Web Application Performance -- Reducing time to page load -- Deferred loading -- Server-side rendering -- Using the DOM to determine state -- Using request type to determine response -- Perceived performance -- Applying perceived performance in Flight -- Summary -- 12. Testing -- What does a test look like? -- Testing the interface -- Obtaining a reference to a component instance -- Instantiating standalone mixins.

Triggering browser events -- Allowing for refactoring -- Testing teardown -- Testing component instantiation -- Extending Jasmine for Flight -- Jasmine and AMD -- Event assertions -- Testing whether methods have been called -- Summary -- 13. Complexities of Flight Architecture -- The danger of nested components -- Teardown -- Atomic components -- Testing -- Creating a flat component structure -- Mixins versus components -- Working with components -- Working with mixins -- Summary -- A. Flight API Reference -- Components -- Component definition -- Mixin definition -- Using mixins -- Instantiating components -- Methods available on a component instance -- Advice -- before -- after -- around -- Initialization -- defaultAttrs -- select -- Events -- on -- off -- trigger -- teardown -- Using Flight's registry -- findInstanceInfoByNode -- findInstanceInfo -- allInstances -- Index.