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JavaScript from Beginner to Professional

By : Laurence Lars Svekis, Maaike van Putten, Codestars By Rob Percival
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Book Image

JavaScript from Beginner to Professional

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By: Laurence Lars Svekis, Maaike van Putten, Codestars By Rob Percival

Overview of this book

This book demonstrates the capabilities of JavaScript for web application development by combining theoretical learning with code exercises and fun projects that you can challenge yourself with. The guiding principle of the book is to show how straightforward JavaScript techniques can be used to make web apps ranging from dynamic websites to simple browser-based games. JavaScript from Beginner to Professional focuses on key programming concepts and Document Object Model manipulations that are used to solve common problems in professional web applications. These include data validation, manipulating the appearance of web pages, working with asynchronous and concurrent code. The book uses project-based learning to provide context for the theoretical components in a series of code examples that can be used as modules of an application, such as input validators, games, and simple animations. This will be supplemented with a brief crash course on HTML and CSS to illustrate how JavaScript components fit into a complete web application. As you learn the concepts, you can try them in your own editor or browser console to get a solid understanding of how they work and what they do. By the end of this JavaScript book, you will feel confident writing core JavaScript code and be equipped to progress to more advanced libraries, frameworks, and environments such as React, Angular, and Node.js.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Index

Chapter projects

Build your own analytics

Figure out which elements are clicked on in a page and record their IDs, tags, and class name.

  1. Create a main container element within your HTML.
  2. Add four elements inside the main element, each having a class of box and a unique ID with unique text content.
  3. Set up your JavaScript code to contain an array that you can use for tracking, adding details from each click into it.
  4. Select the main container element as a variable object in your code.
  5. Add an event listener to capture clicks on the element.
  6. Create a function to handle the clicks. Get the target element from the event object.
  7. Check if the element has an ID, so that you don't track clicks on the main container.
  8. Set up an object to track the values; include the element textContent, id, tagName, and className.
  9. Add the temporary object to your tracking array.
  10. Output the values captured in your tracking array to your...