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Hands-On JavaScript High Performance

By : Justin Scherer
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Book Image

Hands-On JavaScript High Performance

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By: Justin Scherer

Overview of this book

High-performance web development is all about cutting through the complexities in different layers of a web app and building services and APIs that improve the speed and performance of your apps on the browser. With emerging web technologies, building scalable websites and sustainable web apps is smoother than ever. This book starts by taking you through the web frontend, popular web development practices, and the latest version of ES and JavaScript. You'll work with Node.js and learn how to build web apps without a framework. The book consists of three hands-on examples that help you understand JavaScript applications at both the server-side and the client-side using Node.js and Svelte.js. Each chapter covers modern techniques such as DOM manipulation and V8 engine optimization to strengthen your understanding of the web. Finally, you’ll delve into advanced topics such as CI/CD and how you can harness their capabilities to speed up your web development dramatically. By the end of this web development book, you'll have understood how the JavaScript landscape has evolved, not just for the frontend but also for the backend, and be ready to use new tools and techniques to solve common web problems.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Summary

This chapter introduced many concepts for profiling and debugging our code. It took into account the various modern browsers that are out there and even the special features that each of them may or may not have. We specifically looked at the Chrome browser, since a good many developers use it as their main development browser. In addition to this, the V8 engine is used in Node.js, which means all of our Node.js code will use the V8 debugger. Finally, we took a look at utilizing jsPerf to find out what may be the best implementation of some piece of code. We even looked at the possibilities of running it in our own system and how we can implement this.

Looking forward, the remainder of the book will not specifically talk about any of these topics in such detail again, but these tools should be used when developing the code for the rest of the book. On top of this, we...