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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)

Vanilla Land - Looking at the Modern Web

The landscape of the JavaScript language has changed quite a bit since the release of the ECMAScript 2015 standard. There are now many new features that make JavaScript a first-class language for all types of development. It has become much easier to use the language, and we can even see some syntactic sugar in it now.

From the ECMAScript 2015 standard and beyond, we have received classes, modules, more ways of declaring variables, variations of scope, and much more. All of these features and more are going to be explained throughout the rest of this chapter. This is an excellent chapter to read in full if you are new to the language or you may just want to check out the features that may be unfamiliar. We will also take a look at some older sections of the web with DOM queries and how we can utilize them to replace extraneous libraries...