JavaScript Essentials for SAP ABAP Developers: A Guide to Mobile and Desktop Application Development

Easily master JavaScript (JS) with this quick guide and develop mobile and desktop applications for SAP Fiori. This guide equips ABAP/SAP developers with essential topics to get started with JS.

The prime emphasis of JavaScript Essentials for SAP ABAP Developers is on the parts of the JS language that are useful from the perspective of an ABAP developer. The book starts with a brief intro of HTML, the basics of JS, and how to create and run a simple JS program. It then dives into the details of the language, showing how to make simple programs. It covers loops in detail, mathematical operations, and string and regular expression in JS, as well as a taste of functions, followed by objects and object-oriented programming in JavaScript. Finally, it reviews a small SAP application made in SAP UI5 development library. The book provides:

• Ample code examples and screenshots to help the reader to fully understand JS
  
• A chapter on JS best practices and recommendations
  
• Differences and comparisons between the elements and data structures of ABAP and those of JavaScript to help the reader master the material more quickly
  

 

What you’ll learn

• Create and run a simple JavaScript program
  
• Understand loops, operations, and expressions in JS
  
• Create and Use functions in JavaScript
  
• Use objects and object-oriented programming in JS
  
• Apply to the essentials of the powerful jQuery library
  
• Learn how to apply JS techniques to build SAP Fiori applications

 

Who This Book Is For

SAP/ABAP developers, senior ABAP developers, SAP beginners, SAP programmers, SAP ABAP mobility developers, and students learning ABAP and Javascript. The target audience will be SAP professionals, beginner and experienced ABAP users, and university students. This book will serve as an alternative to costly courses in JavaScript.

• ISBN: 978-1-4842-2219-5
• Editorial: Apress
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Fecha Publicación: 05/05/2017
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés