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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

Next Steps

You've come very far already! At this point, you should have the building blocks of JavaScript down. And you are able to create apps, write clever scripts, and read a lot of code. This is a great foundation for some serious next steps. In this chapter, we will be taking what you've learned to the next step by practicing and figuring out what interests you out of the endless possibilities that JavaScript offers.

We won't go into too much detail about all the topics here. The details will be outdated soon and there is an endless supply of very well-crafted tutorials and information on the internet for each one of them. Chances are that by the time you are reading this, the frameworks and libraries we are recommending are hopelessly old. The good news is that the likelihood that the next big thing will use the same concepts is huge.

This chapter will serve as a starting point for your next steps with JavaScript. We will cover the following topics...