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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 have explored a few of the possibilities to continue your JavaScript journey and keep on improving yourself. We started off by discussing the frontend and what libraries and frameworks are. Libraries and frameworks are both pre-made code that you can use in your project, but libraries typically solve one problem while frameworks provide a standard solution that usually controls the way you structure your application and will come with some limitations. On the other hand, frameworks are great fits for very many things you might want to do with your web apps.

We then moved on to looking at the backend. The backend is the code that runs on the server and we can write this code in JavaScript when we use Node.js. Node.js is a runtime engine that can process JavaScript and has some additional features for JavaScript that we don't have when using JavaScript in the browser.

And that's it. You have a very solid understanding of JavaScript at this...