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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

Chapter projects

Working with JSON

Create a JSON file locally, connect to the JSON and data, and output the data from the JSON file into your console:

  1. Create a file with the extension JSON name it people.json.
  2. Within people.json create an array that contains multiple objects. Each item in the array should be an object that has the same structure, using first, last, and topic as the property names. Make sure you use double quotes around the property names and values as this is the proper JSON syntax.
  3. Add three or more entries into the array using the same object structure for each item.
  4. Create an HTML file and add a JavaScript file. Within the JavaScript file use people.json as the URL. Using fetch connect to the URL and retrieve the data. Since this is a JSON-formatted file, once you get the response data it can be formatted into JSON using the .json() method in fetch.
  5. Output the full contents of the data into the console.
  6. Using foreach...