Getting Started with Oracle JET

Rapid application development is the trend of building web applications today with the evolution of web 2.0 and the web frameworks. They are no more just represent the View portion of the MVC architecture, but also cover the responsibility of MVC architecture on the application interface (client-side MVC). This has become a reality with the growth of a number of web frameworks over the last decade. This has motivated organizations like Google and Facebook to develop frameworks such as Angular JS and React JS, which are ready to serve cloud application architecture. The Oracle Corporation observed the trend and appraised the future needs of web applications and developed a simple but efficient web framework by integrating Oracle and open source JavaScript libraries. 

In this chapter we will cover:

• Getting started with Oracle JET
• How to bootstrap your first Oracle JET project
• Setting up npm and Node.js
• Installing Yeoman and Grunt
• Installing Oracle JET generator
• Creating a project using the command line
• Running a project with Grunt
• Managing and running the project using the NetBeans IDE