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JavaScript by Example

By : Dani Akash S
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JavaScript by Example

By: Dani Akash S

Overview of this book

JavaScript is the programming language that all web developers need to learn. The first item on our JavaScript to-do list is building g a To-do list app, which you'll have done by the end of the first chapter. You'll explore DOM manipulation with JavaScript and work with event listeners. You'll work with images and text to build a Meme creator. You will also learn about ES (ECMAScript) classes, and will be introduced to layouts using the CSS3 Flexbox. You'll also develop a responsive Event Registration form that allows users to register for your upcoming event and use charts and graphics to display registration data. You will then build a weather application, which will show you different ways perform AJAX requests and work with dynamic, external data. WebRTC enables real-time communication in a web browser; you'll learn how to use it when you build a real-time video-call and chat application later in the book. Towards the end of the book, you will meet React, Facebook's JavaScript library for building user interfaces. You'll throw together a blog with React, and get a feel for why this kind of JavaScript framework is used to build large-scale applications. To make your blog more maintainable and scalable, you'll use Redux to manage data across React components.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, you built a Weather Widget for your team while learning about the web components. You created a reusable HTML custom element, which uses shadow DOM to abstract CSS from the rest of the document, making the widget easily pluggable into the rest of the project. You also learned about some methods, such as geolocation and set intervals. But the most important thing you learned in this chapter is the advantage of creating independent components in a team environment. By creating a reusable weather component, you made the work easier for yourself and for the rest of the team.

So far, we have been working on pure JavaScript. However, there are a lot of modern frameworks and libraries today, which makes programming with JavaScript more easier, efficient, and scalable to a large extent. Most of the frameworks concentrate on organizing your entire application into...