Zachary Shute studied computer and systems engineering at RPI. He is now the lead full-stack engineer at a machine learning start-up in San Francisco, CA. For his company, Simple Emotion, he manages and deploys Node.js servers, a MongoDB database, and JavaScript and HTML websites.

This book is designed to target anyone who wants to write JavaScript in a professional environment. We expect the audience to have used JavaScript in some capacity and be familiar with the basic syntax. This book would be good for a tech enthusiast wondering when to use generators or how to use Promises and Callbacks effectively, or a novice developer who wants to deepen their knowledge on JavaScript and understand TDD.

This book thoroughly explains the technology in an easy-to-understand way, while perfectly balancing theory and exercises. Each chapter is designed to build on what was learned in the previous chapter. The book contains multiple activities that use real-life business scenarios for you to practice and apply your new skills in a highly relevant context.

For the optimal student experience, we recommend the following hardware configuration:

You'll also need the following software installed in advance:

Access to installation instructions can be provided separately to book material for large training centers and organizations. All source code is publicly available on GitHub and fully referenced within the training material.

Copy the code bundle for the class to the C:/Code folder.

The code bundle for this book is also hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/TrainingByPackt/Advanced-JavaScript.

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Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "The three ways to declare variables in JavaScript: var, let, and const."

A block of code is set as follows:

var example; // Declare variable
example = 5; // Assign value
console.log( example ); // Expect output: 5

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

npm install babel --save-dev

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "This means that variables created with block scope are subject to the Temporal Dead Zone (TDZ)."

Babel is installed locally to each code project. To install Babel in a NodeJs project, complete the following steps: