Create your first Windows Phone Store app using JavaScript

[ This article is for Windows 8.x and Windows Phone 8.x developers writing Windows Runtime apps. If you’re developing for Windows 10, see the latest documentation ]

Follow this tutorial series to learn how to use JavaScript with HTML5 and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to create Windows Phone Store apps.

To download the accompanying sample, see Getting started with JavaScript: Complete code for the tutorial series.

In this section

Topic	Description
Part 1: Create a "Hello, world!" app	Start here to create your first app, a simple "Hello, world" app that displays a personalized greeting. Learn how to: Create a new project Add HTML content to your start page Handle user input from touch, pen, or mouse Switch between the light and dark style sheets Create your own custom styles Use a Windows Library for JavaScript control
Part 2: Manage app lifecycle and state	You can launch several apps and switch between them without having to worry about slowing down the system or running the battery down. That's because the system automatically suspends (and sometimes terminates) apps that are running in the background for you. A well-designed app can be suspended, terminated, and relaunched by the system and seem as though it were running the entire time. In Part 2 of this tutorial series, you update your "Hello, world" app to respond to lifecycle events and save user and session data.
Part 3: PageControl objects and navigation	The "Hello, world" app that you created in the previous tutorials contains a single page of content, but most real-world apps will contain several pages. In this tutorial, you copy the code from your "Hello, world" app into a new app that uses the Navigation App template, and then you add an additional page and enable navigation between the app's pages.
Doc roadmap	After you're done with the tutorials, check out the doc roadmap for a list of key resources that can help you learn more about creating apps using JavaScript.