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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

Best practices


Best practices is a relative term for obvious reasons. What is considered best is rather dependent on the team in which you work and what version of JavaScript you work with. In this section, we will try to cast a wide net over some of these best practices, and get an understanding of what some of the practices look like so that we can adapt and use them as well.

Best practices for HTML

Let's approach this section top-down and address the best practices for each of the sections within an HTML file.

Declaring the correct DOCTYPE

Have you ever wondered why we have <!DOCTYPE html> at the top of our page? We can clearly leave it out, and still the page seems to work. Then, why exactly do we need this? The answer is avoiding backward compatibility—if we do not specify the DOCTYPE, the browser that is interpreting and rendering our HTML goes into quirks mode, which is a technique to support really old websites that were built with outdated versions and markups of HTML, CSS, and...