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Learn ECMAScript - Second Edition
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Overview of this book
Learn ECMAScript explores implementation of the latest ECMAScript features to add to your developer toolbox, helping you to progress to an advanced level. Learn to add 1 to a variable andsafely access shared memory data within multiple threads to avoid race conditions.
You’ll start the book by building on your existing knowledge of JavaScript, covering performing arithmetic operations, using arrow functions and dealing with closures. Next, you will grasp the most commonly used ECMAScript skills such as reflection, proxies, and classes. Furthermore, you’ll learn modularizing the JS code base, implementing JS on the web and how the modern HTML5 + JS APIs provide power to developers on the web. Finally, you will learn the deeper parts of the language, which include making JavaScript multithreaded with dedicated and shared web workers, memory management, shared memory, and atomics. It doesn’t end here; this book is 100% compatible with ES.Next.
By the end of this book, you'll have fully mastered all the features of ECMAScript!
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Preface
Getting Started with ECMAScript
Knowing Your Library
Using Iterators
Asynchronous Programming
Modular Programming
Implementing the Reflect API
Classes
JavaScript on the Web
Storage APIs in JavaScript
Web and Service Workers
Shared Memory and Atomics
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