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JavaScript for .NET Developers

By : Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan
Book Image

JavaScript for .NET Developers

By: Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan

Overview of this book

If you want to improve responsiveness or the UX in your ASP.NET applications, JavaScript can be a life saver. In an age where server-side operations have shifted to the client, being able to handle JavaScript with confidence and fluency is vital for ASP.NET developers. There’s no point trying to fight it, so start learning with this book. Make sure your projects exceed user expectations. Begin by getting stuck into the basics of JavaScript, and explore the language in the context of ASP.NET Core. You’ll then find out how to put the principles into practice, as you learn how to develop a basic ASP.NET application using Angular 2 and TypeScript. You’ll also develop essential skills required to develop responsive apps, with a little help from AJAX, ensuring that you’re building projects that can be easily accessed across different devices. With guidance on Node.js and some neat techniques to test and debug a range of JavaScript libraries in Visual Studio, you’ll soon be well on your way to combining JavaScript with ASP.NET in a way that’s capable of meeting the challenges of modern web development head-on.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
JavaScript for .NET Developers
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction to Node.js


Node.js is a powerful platform to build server-side applications using JavaScript. Node.js itself is not written in JavaScript but provides a runtime environment to run JavaScript code. It allows JavaScript code that runs on the server side, providing the runtime built on the Google V8 JavaScript engine, which is an open source JavaScript engine written in C++, and used by Google Chrome, to compile JavaScript code into machine code, at the time of executing through the V8 JIT compiler.

Node.js works on a single thread; unlike other server-side technologies that create a separate thread for each request, Node.js uses the event callback system that processes the request using a single thread. If multiple requests arrive they have to wait until the thread becomes available and then acquire it. In the case of errors, Node.js does not throw an error and this is an essential technique to avoid error bubbling and the abortion of the single thread. If any error arises while...