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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

Summary

In this chapter, we really took our web skills to the next level. Manipulating the DOM allows all kinds of interactions with the web page, meaning that the web page is no longer a static event.

We started off by explaining the dynamic web and how to traverse the DOM. After having walked over the elements manually, we learned that there's an easier way to select elements in the DOM with the getElementBy…() and the querySelector() methods. After having selected them, we had the power to modify them, add new elements to them, and do all sorts of things using the elements we selected. We started with some more basic HTML handlers, and we could assign a function to, for example, the onclick attribute of the HTML element.

We also accessed the clicked element using the this argument that was sent in as a parameter, and we could modify it in different ways, for example, by changing the style property. We also saw how to add classes to an element, create new...