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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 entire chapter has been focused on offloading tasks from the main thread to other threads of work. We have looked at dedicated workers that only a single page has. We have then taken a look at how we can broadcast messages between multiple workers without having to loop through the respective ports.

Then we saw how we can share a worker on the same domain utilizing SharedWorker and also looked at how we can share a data source utilizing SharedArrayBuffer. Finally, we took a practical look at creating a shared cache that anyone has access to.

In the next chapter, we will take this concept of caching and handling requests one step further by utilizing ServiceWorker.