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Web Developer's Reference Guide

By : Joshua Johanan, Talha Khan, Ricardo Zea
Book Image

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

Shorthand functions


Shorthand function, also known as expression closure, is a technique to use simple functions in JavaScript. It is used to omit a function's curly brackets in the event; it returns a true or false statement. Similarly, if you omit the return keyword, it would also send you the exact same result.

The expression will be evaluated quickly after the argument list in your script by omitting the curly brackets and the return keyword.

Here is an example:

Let student=function(a)
A+1, yes
Function()
True,no

This behaves similarly like functions. They are defined with curly brackets and a return statement. This is very useful when we want to pass a function as an argument to a function.