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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)

Why use a framework?

Modern application development is all about speed, maintainability, and scalability. Given the web is the major platform for many applications, the same will be expected for any web applications. JavaScript may be a great language but writing plain JavaScript can be a tedious process at times when you are dealing with a large application in a team environment.

In such applications, you will have to manipulate a lot of DOM elements. Whenever you make changes to the CSS of a DOM element, it is called a repaint. It will affect how an element appears on the browser. Whenever you remove, change, or add an element in the DOM, then it is called a reflow. A reflow of a parent element causes all its child elements to reflow too. Repaints and reflows are expensive operations because they are synchronous. It means when a repaint or reflow happens, JavaScript will not...