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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

Built-In JavaScript Methods

We have just covered most of the basic building blocks in JavaScript. Now it's time to look at some powerful built-in methods that will make your life easier that we haven't seen yet. Built-in methods are functionality that we get out of the box with JavaScript. We can use these methods without having to code them first. This is something we have done a lot already, for example, console.log() and prompt().

Many built-in methods belong to built-in classes as well. These classes and their methods can be used at any time because JavaScript has already defined them. These classes exist for our convenience, since they are very common things to need, such as the Date, Array, and Object classes.

The ability to harness the capabilities that are already built into JavaScript can improve the effectiveness of the code, save time, and comply with various best practices for developing solutions. We are going to address some of the common uses...