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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

Classes

In this chapter, we are going to discuss JavaScript classes. We have seen JavaScript objects already, and classes are a blueprint or template for object creation. So, many of the things discussed here should not sound too unfamiliar or revolutionary.

Classes enable object-oriented programming, which was one of the most important design advancements in software development. This development reduced the complexity of applications and increased maintainability by a huge margin.

So, object-oriented programming and classes are of great importance for computer science in general. This is not necessarily the case when we apply it to JavaScript though. JavaScript classes are something special compared to other programming languages. Beneath the surface, classes are wrapped in some sort of special function. This means that they are actually an alternative syntax for defining objects using a constructor function. In this chapter, we will learn what classes are and how we can...