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JavaScript from Beginner to Professional

By : Laurence Lars Svekis, Maaike van Putten, Codestars By Rob Percival
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Book Image

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

Regular expressions

Regular expressions, also known as regex, are simply ways to describe text patterns. You can consider them next-level strings. There are different regex implementations. This means that depending on the interpreter, regex might differ a bit in the way they're written. However, they are somewhat standardized, so you write them (almost) the same for all versions of regex. We are going to use regex for JavaScript.

Regex can be very useful in many situations, for example when you need to look for errors in a large file or retrieve the browser agent a user is using. They can also be used for form validation, as with regex you can specify valid patterns for field entries such as email addresses or phone numbers.

Regex is not only useful for finding strings, but can also be used for replacing strings. By now you might think, so regex is amazing, but is there a catch? And yes, unfortunately, there is a catch. At first, regex might kind of look like your neighbor...