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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

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about authentication, authorization, and the difference between the two. Remember that it's usually not enough to only do one or the other: most applications that need credentials need a combination of both.

Firebase is a useful cloud storage database that you can use with existing login systems and can not only be useful as a development resource but can also scale to production-level usage. Lastly, remember these points: because JavaScript is client-side, we have to protect sensitive information in different manners than a purely backend application:

  1. Authenticate and authorize to determine who can use which resources.
  2. Separate our sensitive data from our public data.
  3. Never commit keys and sensitive data to a repository!

It's up to all of us to be good digital citizens, but there are bad actors out there. Protect yourself and your code!

In the next chapter, we'll be tying together Node.js and MongoDB to persist our data. We'll...