Web Applications with Javascript or Java

3Building a Minimal Web App with Plain JS in Seven Steps

In this chapter, we show how to build a minimal front-end web application with plain JavaScript and Local Storage. The purpose of our example app is to manage information about books. That is, we deal with a single object type: Book, as depicted in the class diagram of Figure 3.1.

Figure 3.1 The object type Book.

The following table shows a sample data population for the model class Book:

Table 3.1 A collection of book objects represented as a table

ISBN	Title	Year
006251587X	Weaving the Web	2000
0465026567	Gödel, Escher, Bach	1999
0465030793	I Am A Strange Loop	2008

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