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Hands-On JavaScript High Performance

By : Justin Scherer
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Book Image

Hands-On JavaScript High Performance

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By: Justin Scherer

Overview of this book

High-performance web development is all about cutting through the complexities in different layers of a web app and building services and APIs that improve the speed and performance of your apps on the browser. With emerging web technologies, building scalable websites and sustainable web apps is smoother than ever. This book starts by taking you through the web frontend, popular web development practices, and the latest version of ES and JavaScript. You'll work with Node.js and learn how to build web apps without a framework. The book consists of three hands-on examples that help you understand JavaScript applications at both the server-side and the client-side using Node.js and Svelte.js. Each chapter covers modern techniques such as DOM manipulation and V8 engine optimization to strengthen your understanding of the web. Finally, you’ll delve into advanced topics such as CI/CD and how you can harness their capabilities to speed up your web development dramatically. By the end of this web development book, you'll have understood how the JavaScript landscape has evolved, not just for the frontend but also for the backend, and be ready to use new tools and techniques to solve common web problems.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Summary

While there is one piece left to add (hooking our sidebar up to point to real files), this should be a great general-purpose templating server. All that needs to be done is modifying our FILE template and hooking it into the sidebar of our templating system. With everything we have learned about Node.js, we should be able to handle almost any type of server-side application. We should also be able to understand how implementations of web servers such as Express are created from these basic building blocks.

From here, we will head back into the browser and take some of the concepts we learned from this part of the book and apply them to the web over the next couple of chapters. We will start by looking at worker threads in the browser, known as dedicated workers. We will then take a look at shared workers, and how we can benefit from being able to offload work to these...