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Object-Oriented JavaScript - Third Edition

By : Stoyan STEFANOV, Antani
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Book Image

Object-Oriented JavaScript - Third Edition

5 (1)
By: Stoyan STEFANOV, Antani

Overview of this book

JavaScript is an object-oriented programming language that is used for website development. Web pages developed today currently follow a paradigm that has three clearly distinguishable parts: content (HTML), presentation (CSS), and behavior (JavaScript). JavaScript is one important pillar in this paradigm, and is responsible for the running of the web pages. This book will take your JavaScript skills to a new level of sophistication and get you prepared for your journey through professional web development. Updated for ES6, this book covers everything you will need to unleash the power of object-oriented programming in JavaScript while building professional web applications. The book begins with the basics of object-oriented programming in JavaScript and then gradually progresses to cover functions, objects, and prototypes, and how these concepts can be used to make your programs cleaner, more maintainable, faster, and compatible with other programs/libraries. By the end of the book, you will have learned how to incorporate object-oriented programming in your web development workflow to build professional JavaScript applications.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
15
B. Built-in Functions
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D. Regular Expressions

Primitive data types

Any value that you use is of a certain type. In JavaScript, the following are just a few primitive data types:

  1. Number: This includes floating point numbers as well as integers. For example, these values are all numbers-1, 100, 3.14.
  2. String: These consist of any number of characters, for example, a, one, and one 2 three.
  3. Boolean: This can be either true or false.
  4. Undefined: When you try to access a variable that doesn't exist, you get the special value undefined. The same happens when you declare a variable without assigning a value to it yet. JavaScript initializes the variable behind the scenes with the value undefined. The undefined data type can only have one value-the special value undefined.
  5. Null: This is another special data type that can have only one value-the null value. It means no value, an empty value, or nothing. The difference with undefined is that if a variable has a null value, it's still defined; it just so happens that its value is nothing. You...