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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

The BOM

The BOM, sometimes also called the window browser object, is the amazing "magic" element that makes it possible for your JavaScript code to communicate with the browser.

The window object contains all the properties required to represent the window of the browser, so for example, the size of the window and the history of previously visited web pages. The window object has global variables and functions, and these can all be seen when we explore the window object. The exact implementation of the BOM depends on the browser and the version of the browser. This is important to keep in mind while working your way through these sections.

Some of the most important objects of the BOM we will look into in this chapter are:

  • History
  • Navigator
  • Location

As well as the preceding useful objects, we will also consider the DOM in more detail. But first, we can explore the BOM and see the objects of it with the command console.dir(window)....