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JavaScript from Frontend to Backend

By : Eric Sarrion
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JavaScript from Frontend to Backend

By: Eric Sarrion

Overview of this book

JavaScript, the most widely used programming language in the world, has numerous libraries and modules and a dizzying array of need-to-know topics. Picking a starting point can be difficult. Enter JavaScript from Frontend to Backend. This concise, practical guide will get you up to speed in next to no time. This book begins with the basics of variables and objects in JavaScript and then moves quickly on to building components on the client-side with Vue.js and a simple list management application. After that, the focus shifts to the server-side and Node.js, where you’ll examine the MVC model and explore the Express module. Once you've got to grips with the server-side and the client-side, the only thing that remains is the database. You’ll discover MongoDB and the Mongoose module. In the final chapter of this fast-paced guide, you'll combine all these pieces to integrate a Vue.js application into a Node.js server, using Express to structure the server code and MongoDB to store the information. By the end of this book, you will have the skills and confidence to successfully implement JavaScript concepts in your own projects and begin your career as a JavaScript developer.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
1
Part 1: JavaScript Syntax
4
Part 2: JavaScript on the Client-Side
8
Part 3: JavaScript on the Server-Side

Using visual effects

Visual effects make it possible to make HTML pages more dynamic by bringing visual animations to them. For example, to delete an item in a list, you can make it gradually disappear using an opacity effect rather than deleting it directly without using a visual effect.

It is possible to use visual effects with Vue.js, in particular, to make elements appear or disappear from the page. Visual effects that do not make HTML elements appear or disappear from the page (for example, making an element move by clicking on it) are also possible with Vue.js. You can refer to https://vuejs.org/guide/extras/animation.html for more details on these types of animations. We do not explain these effects here because the available documentation is clear enough to use them.

Going forward in this chapter, we will learn about the visual effects that are related to the appearance or disappearance of one or more elements on the page.

The element we want to help appear or disappear...