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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

Dynamic Element Manipulation Using the DOM

Learning the difficult concepts of the previous chapter will be rewarded in this chapter. We will take our DOM knowledge one step further and learn how to manipulate the DOM elements on the page with JavaScript. First, we need to learn how to navigate the DOM and select the elements we want. We will learn how we can add and change attributes and values, and how to add new elements to the DOM.

You will also learn how to add style to elements, which can be used to make items appear and disappear. Then we will introduce you to events and event listeners. We will start easy, but by the end of this chapter you will be able to manipulate web pages in many ways, and you will have the knowledge to create basic web apps. The sky is the limit after getting this skill down.

Along the way, we will cover the following topics:

  • Basic DOM traversing
  • Accessing elements in the DOM
  • Element click handler
  • This and the...