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Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with JavaScript

By : Kashyap Mukkamala
Book Image

Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with JavaScript

By: Kashyap Mukkamala

Overview of this book

Data structures and algorithms are the fundamental building blocks of computer programming. They are critical to any problem, provide a complete solution, and act like reusable code. Using appropriate data structures and having a good understanding of algorithm analysis are key in JavaScript to solving crises and ensuring your application is less prone to errors. Do you want to build applications that are high-performing and fast? Are you looking for complete solutions to implement complex data structures and algorithms in a practical way? If either of these questions rings a bell, then this book is for you! You'll start by building stacks and understanding performance and memory implications. You will learn how to pick the right type of queue for the application. You will then use sets, maps, trees, and graphs to simplify complex applications. You will learn to implement different types of sorting algorithm before gradually calculating and analyzing space and time complexity. Finally, you'll increase the performance of your application using micro optimizations and memory management. By the end of the book you will have gained the skills and expertise necessary to create and employ various data structures in a way that is demanded by your project or use case.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
PacktPub.com
Contributors
Preface
5
Simplify Complex Applications Using Graphs
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we explored ways in which the code performance can be improved by making optimizations to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that we write for our applications. It is very important to understand that these are something that may, or may not, benefit you, based on the application that you are trying to build. The main takeaway from this chapter should be the ability to open up the browser's insides and not be scared to dissect and take a look at how the browsers handle our code. Also, be wary that the ECMA specification guide keeps changing, but it takes time for the browsers to catch up with the changes. Also, last but not the least, never over-optimize or optimize too early. If you run into issues, then measure first and then decide what the bottlenecks are before coming up with a plan for optimization.