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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

Special functions and operators

There are a few special ways of writing functions, as well as some special operators that will come in handy. We are talking about arrow functions and the spread and rest operators here. Arrow functions are great for sending functions around as parameters and using shorter notations. The spread and rest operators make our lives easier and are more flexible when sending arguments and working with arrays.

Arrow functions

Arrow functions are a special way of writing functions that can be confusing at first. Their use looks like this:

(param1, param2) => body of the function;

Or for no parameters:

() => body of the function;

Or for one parameter (no parentheses are needed here):

param => body of the function;

Or for a multiline function with two parameters:

(param1, param2) => {
  // line 1;
  // any number of lines;
};

Arrow functions are useful whenever you want to write an implementation on the...