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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

CSS optimizations


CSS optimizations are extremely easy and kind of obvious if you have experience developing with any preprocessor frameworks, such as SCSS/LESS. When we discuss CSS optimization, we are really talking about two different yet dependent things:

  • Loading the style sheets
  • Rendering and applying styles

Coding practices

There are a number of coding practices that we can adapt and learn to make our application perform better. Most of them might seem insignificant, but they do matter when scaled to a large application. We will discuss a few of these techniques with examples.

Using smaller values for common ENUM

As we are talking about reducing the page load time, one quick way to do so is by removing redundancies in the CSS file itself: 

  • Using #FFFFFF ? Switch to #FFF, which is the same RGB value represented in short.
  • Do not add px after a properties value if the value is 0.
  • Use minification if not being used already. This concatenates all the CSS files in use and removes all the whitespace...