Instant Easeljs Starter

Fabio Biondi

Mar 2013 · Packt Publishing Ltd

About this ebook

Get to grips with a new technology, understand what it is and what it can do for you, and then get to work with the most important features and tasks.A short and precise guide to get you started with EaselJS, helping you to create some cool applications and games. EaselJS greatly simplifies application development in HTML5 Canvas using a syntax and an architecture very similar to the ActionScript 3.0 language. As a result, Flash / Flex developers will immediately feel at home but it's very easy to learn even if you've never opened Flash in your life. The book targets Web designers, animators, Digital content producers, and Flash and Flex developers. It's assumed that you will have some experience in HTML and pure JavaScript.

About the author

Fabio Biondi is a freelancer living in the north east of Italy. Since 2003, he has worked almost exclusively with the Adobe Flash Platform technologies. He is an Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI) in Flex, AIR, Flash Professional, Flash Catalyst, and FlashLite (ACE) and he has devoted all his time and resources to the development of custom interactive user interfaces for web, mobile and touch displays for many international brands. From 2011, he focused almost entirely on the development of cross-platform web applications in HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3 and HTML5 Canvas through the use of the CreateJS suite.Fabio runs a blog (http: //www.fabiobiondi.com / blog) and a YouTube Channe(http: //www.youtube.com/user/BiondiFabio) where he provides tutorials, snippets and many prototypes about HTML5, AIR, Flash, Arduino, Kinect and collaborative application