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 Development
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+This section touches on various aspects and tools related to development activities with regard to qooxdoo. Topics range from the various qooxdoo application types, over discussions of performance, unit testing and debugging, to internationalization and parts, a specific means to partition and lazily load application components.
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 Application Creation
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