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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

Examples of commonly used effects

Below are some descriptions of effects. With a few lines of CSS code, you can easily produce classic effects such as the shrinking/enlargement of a paragraph (shrink effect), its gradual disappearance/appearance (opacity effect), and its vertical displacement (ymove effect). You are free to choose the names given to these effects and symbolize the effect produced.

The shrink effect

To use the shrink effect (here called "shrink"), we use the CSS font-size property.

At the beginning of the effect, the paragraph is of normal size:

Figure 4.10 – The paragraph is normal size at the beginning of the disappearing effect

Once the effect has started following a click on the button, the paragraph decreases in size until it disappears.

Figure 4.11 – The paragraph decreases in size until it disappears

Once the paragraph has disappeared, it can reappear after another click on the...