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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

Variable, scope, and memory


When we describe a variable in JavaScript, there is no limit to how much data this variable holds. The maximum is described by the browser's capacity depending on how much data it can hold. Let's take a look the following code:

var abc="xyz";

We can define a variable in JavaScript using the var keyword. We can define the value of a variable immediately or later. A variable that we define outside the boundary of a function is a global variable.

Tip

Creating too many global variables in JavaScript is a very bad approach. The major reason why global variables are discouraged in JavaScript is because in JavaScript, all the code shares a single global namespace, also JavaScript has implied global variables, that is, variables that are not explicitly declared in local scope are automatically included with global namespaces. Relying too much on global variables can result in conflicts between various scripts on the same page.

Every function in a script can access a global...