Summary

This chapter barely scratched the surface of your journey with Dojo, but it nonetheless covered a lot of ground. After reading this chapter, you should:

  • Know where to go to download the toolkit and set up a development environment

  • Understand the toolkit's architecture and the key differences between each component

  • Understand some of the common parlance used in Dojo development

  • Realize some of the benefits of using Firebug during the development cycle

  • Understand the basic ideas behind how the toolkit bootstraps itself

  • Have an appreciation for how easy it is to use Base and plug out-of-the-box dijits into a page

  • Be familiar with the look and feel of Dojo code

  • Be excited to read the subsequent chapters and learn more about Dojo

The next chapter will discuss language and browser utilities.

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