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Mastering JavaScript

By : Ved Antani
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Mastering JavaScript

By: Ved Antani

Overview of this book

JavaScript is a high-level, dynamic, untyped, lightweight, and interpreted programming language. Along with HTML and CSS, it is one of the three essential technologies of World Wide Web content production, and is an open source and cross-platform technology. The majority of websites employ JavaScript, and it is well supported by all modern web browsers without plugins. However, the JavaScript landscape has changed dramatically in recent years, and you need to adapt to the new world of JavaScript that people now expect. Mastering modern JavaScript techniques and the toolchain are essential to develop web-scale applications. Mastering JavaScript will be your companion as you master JavaScript and build innovative web applications. To begin with, you will get familiarized with the language constructs and how to make code easy to organize. You will gain a concrete understanding of variable scoping, loops, and best practices on using types and data structures, as well as the coding style and recommended code organization patterns in JavaScript. The book will also teach you how to use arrays and objects as data structures. You will graduate from intermediate-level skills to advanced techniques as you come to understand crucial language concepts and design principles. You will learn about modern libraries and tools so you can write better code. By the end of the book, you will understand how reactive JavaScript is going to be the new paradigm.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Mastering JavaScript
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

About the Reviewer

Ivano Malavolta is a postdoctoral researcher at the Gran Sasso Science Institute (L'Aquila, Italy), and he holds a PhD in computer science from the University of L'Aquila. His research is positioned in three main fields: software architecture, Model-Driven Engineering (MDE), and mobile-enabled systems. He is especially interested in investigating how MDE techniques can be exploited for architecting complex and mobile-enabled software systems at the right level of abstraction. He is the author of more than 40 papers in international journals and peer-reviewed international conferences' proceedings; among them, he has coauthored two articles published in the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), which is considered the leading journal in the field of software engineering. He is a reviewer for four international journals, a program committee member of 10 international conferences, a reviewer for 13 international conferences, and a guest editor of an international journal.

He is an instructor of three courses on software engineering, mobile computing, and mobile application development via web technologies; these courses are held at the University of L'Aquila and Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy.

He has previously reviewed other books about web technologies for Packt Publishing, such as Backbone.js Cookbook by Vadim Mirgorod and Backbone.js Blueprints by Andrew Burgess.