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JavaScript from Beginner to Professional

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

Intermediate JavaScript

The concepts and solution approaches presented up to this point in the book are not the only way to think about solving issues. In this chapter, we will challenge you to look a little deeper, be curious, and practice the good habit of optimizing solutions.

In previous chapters, you were promised great things about this chapter because the optimal use of some built-in methods require knowledge of regular expressions, which we will cover in this chapter. There is a lot more fun to be had though—here is a list of topics that we'll cover:

  • Regular expressions
  • Functions and the arguments object
  • JavaScript hoisting
  • Strict mode
  • Debugging
  • Using cookies
  • Local storage
  • JSON

As you can see, a selection of diverse topics, but all advanced and fun. The sections in this chapter are not as related to each other as you might have gotten used to by now. They are mostly individual topics that can help...