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Hands-on JavaScript for Python Developers

By : Sonyl Nagale
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Hands-on JavaScript for Python Developers

By: Sonyl Nagale

Overview of this book

Knowledge of Python is a great foundation for learning other languages. This book will help you advance in your software engineering career by leveraging your Python programming skills to learn JavaScript and apply its unique features not only for frontend web development but also for streamlining work on the backend. Starting with the basics of JavaScript, you’ll cover its syntax, its use in the browser, and its frameworks and libraries. From working with user interactions and ingesting data from APIs through to creating APIs with Node.js, this book will help you get up and running with JavaScript using hands-on exercises, code snippets, and detailed descriptions of JavaScript implementation and benefits. To understand the use of JavaScript in the backend, you’ll explore Node.js and discover how it communicates with databases. As you advance, you’ll get to grips with creating your own RESTful APIs and connecting the frontend and backend for holistic full-stack development knowledge. By the end of this Python JavaScript book, you’ll have the knowledge you need to write full-fledged web applications from start to finish. You’ll have also gained hands-on experience of working through several projects, which will help you advance in your career as a JavaScript developer.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
1
Section 1 - What is JavaScript? What is it not?
6
Section 2 - Using JavaScript on the Front-End
13
Section 3 - The Back-End: Node.js vs. Python
20
Section 4 - Communicating with Databases

Angular

Angular was created by Google as AngularJS. In 2016, it was rewritten as version 2, separating it from AngularJS. It's open source and a framework, versus a library, which now raises the question: what's the difference between a framework and a library?

A library is a toolkit to more easily write your code, for varying purposes. To use an architectural analogy, a library is like a set of bricks that can be used to assemble a house. Conversely, a framework is more aligned with the blueprints used to design the house. It may use some of the same bricks—or it might not! One of the main differences is that libraries, in general, allow you to write your code as you would like to write it without the library dictating opinions on how to structure your code. Frameworks, on the other hand, are more opinionated and ask you to structure your code in the best practices of that framework. It's a nebulous (and sometimes overloaded) term, so there's an understandable...