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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

Array methods

We have just seen the built-in length property. We also have a few built-in methods. Methods are functions on a certain object. Instead of holding a value, like properties, they perform actions. We will cover functions in-depth in Chapter 6, Functions. For now, all you need to know is that you can call methods and functions, and when you do, some code that is specified inside that function gets executed.

We just accidentally saw we could add elements using new indices. This is not the proper way to do it as it is easy to make mistakes and accidentally overwrite a certain value or skip a certain index. The right way is to do this with a special method. Similarly, we can also delete elements and sort the elements in the array.

Adding and replacing elements

We can add elements with the push() method:

favoriteFruits = ["grapefruit", "orange", "lemon"];
favoriteFruits.push("tangerine");

The value gets added...