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Mastering JavaScript High Performance

By : Chad R. Adams
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Mastering JavaScript High Performance

By: Chad R. Adams

Overview of this book

<p>Studying JavaScript performance in depth will make you capable of tackling the complex and important tasks required to solve performance issues. In this book, you'll learn when and why to use an IDE over a common text editor. Packed with examples, you'll also learn how to create a build system to test and deploy your JavaScript project by optimizing the code. Next, you will move on to learn about DOM optimization, JavaScript promises, and web workers to better break up your large codebase. You will also learn about JavaScript performance on mobile platforms such as iOS and Android and how to deploy your JavaScript project to a device. Finally, by the end of the book, you'll be able to pinpoint JavaScript performance problems using appropriate tools, provide optimization techniques, and provide tools to develop fast applications with JavaScript.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mastering JavaScript High Performance
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
The Need for Speed
5
Operators, Loops, and Timers
Index

About the Reviewers

Yaroslav Bigus is an expert in building cross-platform web and mobile applications. He has over 5 years' experience in development and has worked for companies in Leeds and New York. He has used the .NET Framework stack to develop backend systems, JavaScript, AngularJS, jQuery, Underscore for frontends, and Xamarin for mobile devices.

Yaroslav is working for an Israeli start-up called Tangiblee. He has reviewed Xamarin Mobile Application Development for iOS, Packt Publishing, written by Paul F. Johnson; iOS Development with Xamarin CookBook, Packt Publishing, written by Dimitris Tavlikos; and Learning JavaScript Data Structures and Algorithms, Packt Publishing, written by Loiane Groner.

Andrea Chiarelli has over 20 years' experience as a software engineer and technical writer. In his professional career, he has used various technologies for the projects he was involved in, from C#, JavaScript, and ASP.NET to AngularJS, REST, and PhoneGap/Cordova.

Andrea has contributed to many online and offline magazines, such as Computer Programming and ASP Today, and coauthored a few books published by Wrox Press.

Currently, Andrea is a senior software engineer at the Italian office of Apparound, a mobile software company founded in the heart of Silicon Valley. He is a regular contributor to http://www.HTML.it, an Italian online magazine focused on web technologies.

Vishal Rajpal is an experienced software engineer who started developing professional software applications in 2011. He has worked primarily on Java, Javascript, and multiplatform mobile application development, including PhoneGap and Titanium.

Vishal is pursuing his master's degree in computer science from Northeastern University, Seattle, and has worked on C, Java, and JavaScript. He lives in Seattle and can be contacted at . You can also read more about his work at https://github.com/vishalrajpal/ and http://www.vishal-rajpal.blogspot.in.

Vishal has also worked on books by Packt Publishing, such as PhoneGap 3.x Mobile Application Development HOTSHOT and Learning Javascript, Data Structures, and Algorithms.