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Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with JavaScript

By : Kashyap Mukkamala
Book Image

Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with JavaScript

By: Kashyap Mukkamala

Overview of this book

Data structures and algorithms are the fundamental building blocks of computer programming. They are critical to any problem, provide a complete solution, and act like reusable code. Using appropriate data structures and having a good understanding of algorithm analysis are key in JavaScript to solving crises and ensuring your application is less prone to errors. Do you want to build applications that are high-performing and fast? Are you looking for complete solutions to implement complex data structures and algorithms in a practical way? If either of these questions rings a bell, then this book is for you! You'll start by building stacks and understanding performance and memory implications. You will learn how to pick the right type of queue for the application. You will then use sets, maps, trees, and graphs to simplify complex applications. You will learn to implement different types of sorting algorithm before gradually calculating and analyzing space and time complexity. Finally, you'll increase the performance of your application using micro optimizations and memory management. By the end of the book you will have gained the skills and expertise necessary to create and employ various data structures in a way that is demanded by your project or use case.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
PacktPub.com
Contributors
Preface
5
Simplify Complex Applications Using Graphs
Index

Chapter 9. Micro-Optimizations and Memory Management

In this chapter, we will cover some of the basic concepts of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and the browser in which we expect all of these to run in union. We always have, and always will, code in a certain style, which is natural. However, how did we develop this style? Is it good or can it get better? How do we get to decide what we should and should not ask others to follow? These are some of the questions that we will try and answer in this chapter.

In this chapter, we will discuss the following:

  • Importance of best practices and take a look at some of the examples.
  • Exploring different kinds of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript optimizations
  • Delve into the internal working of some of the features of Chrome.