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Web Developer's Reference Guide

By : Joshua Johanan, Talha Khan, Ricardo Zea
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Web Developer's Reference Guide

By: Joshua Johanan, Talha Khan, Ricardo Zea

Overview of this book

This comprehensive reference guide takes you through each topic in web development and highlights the most popular and important elements of each area. Starting with HTML, you will learn key elements and attributes and how they relate to each other. Next, you will explore CSS pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements, followed by CSS properties and functions. This will introduce you to many powerful and new selectors. You will then move on to JavaScript. This section will not just introduce functions, but will provide you with an entire reference for the language and paradigms. You will discover more about three of the most popular frameworks today—Bootstrap, which builds on CSS, jQuery which builds on JavaScript, and AngularJS, which also builds on JavaScript. Finally, you will take a walk-through Node.js, which is a server-side framework that allows you to write programs in JavaScript.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Web Developer's Reference Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
9
JavaScript Expressions, Operators, Statements, and Arrays
Index

Polymorphism


Since JavaScript is a dynamic language, it supports polymorphism. Polymorphism can be understood as the ability of an object to be different at different times. For example, a shape can be a square, a rectangle, or a circle.

Encapsulation

This feature is also supported in JavaScript. It means protecting parts of code from external use. It protects part of the code that does not concern the end user but is important for running an application, such as in an application that stores passwords. Users don't have to know how their passwords are encrypted. Hence, this code is encapsulated.

Inheritance

In JavaScript, inheritance can be used to derive properties of parent objects to their child objects and have some unique attributes for themselves as well. For example, a square and a triangle may inherit their stroke or fill from a shape object and, at the same time, have a number of vertices unique to themselves.

Abstraction

Abstraction is not natively supported in JavaScript, but there...