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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

Local storage

We have looked at cookies as a way to save user data, but there is actually a more modern way to do this: local storage. Local storage is an amazing fun topic that will add to your ability to make smart websites. With local storage, we can save key-value pairs in our web browser and use them again in a new session (when the browser is opened again later). The information is typically stored in a folder on the computer of the user, but this differs a bit by browser.

This allows the website to store some information and retrieve it later, even after refreshing the page or closing the browser. The advantage of local storage over cookies is that they don't need to be passed around with every HTTP request, which is the case with cookies. Local storage just lives there and waits to be accessed.

The localStorage object is a property of the window object that we have seen before. There are a few methods on the localStorage object that we need to know to use it effectively...