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JavaScript from Beginner to Professional

By : Laurence Lars Svekis, Maaike van Putten, Codestars By Rob Percival
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Book Image

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

You may wonder, if classes do the exact same thing as simply defining an object, why do we even need classes? The answer is that classes are essentially blueprints for object creation. This means that we need to do much less typing if we need to create 20 dogs when we have a dog class. If we have to create the objects, we will have to specify all the properties' names each time. And it would be easy to make a typo and misspell a property name. Classes come in handy in these sorts of situations.

As shown in the previous section, we use the class keyword to tell JavaScript we want to create a class. Next, we give the class a name. It is the convention to start class names with a capital letter.

Let's have a look at all the different elements of a class.

Constructors

The constructor method is a special method that we use to initialize objects with our class blueprint. There can only be one constructor in a class. This constructor contains properties...