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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 had some important, more advanced topics that we still had to cover, but that you were probably not ready for earlier in the book. After this chapter, you should have deepened your understanding of JavaScript in several areas, first and foremost, regular expressions. With regex, we can specify patterns of strings and we can use these to search other strings for matches to our patterns.

We also considered functions and the arguments object, with which we can access arguments by their index. We continued with a look at JavaScript hoisting and strict mode, which enables us to use JavaScript with a few more rules. Getting used to JavaScript in strict mode is generally a good practice and is great preparation for working with JavaScript frameworks.

Debugging and tweaking were also discussed: we can use breakpoints or log our output to the console to get an idea of what is going on. Handling errors well can prevent unnecessary crashes of our program....