Search icon CANCEL
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
JavaScript from Beginner to Professional

You're reading from   JavaScript from Beginner to Professional Learn JavaScript quickly by building fun, interactive, and dynamic web apps, games, and pages

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800562523
Length 546 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Tools
Arrow right icon
Authors (4):
Arrow left icon
Codestars By Rob Percival Codestars By Rob Percival
Author Profile Icon Codestars By Rob Percival
Codestars By Rob Percival
Laurence Svekis Laurence Svekis
Author Profile Icon Laurence Svekis
Laurence Svekis
Maaike van Putten Maaike van Putten
Author Profile Icon Maaike van Putten
Maaike van Putten
Rob Percival Rob Percival
Author Profile Icon Rob Percival
Rob Percival
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with JavaScript FREE CHAPTER 2. JavaScript Essentials 3. JavaScript Multiple Values 4. Logic Statements 5. Loops 6. Functions 7. Classes 8. Built-In JavaScript Methods 9. The Document Object Model 10. Dynamic Element Manipulation Using the DOM 11. Interactive Content and Event Listeners 12. Intermediate JavaScript 13. Concurrency 14. HTML5, Canvas, and JavaScript 15. Next Steps 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index
Appendix – Practice Exercise, Project, and Self-Check Quiz Answers

Special functions and operators

There are a few special ways of writing functions, as well as some special operators that will come in handy. We are talking about arrow functions and the spread and rest operators here. Arrow functions are great for sending functions around as parameters and using shorter notations. The spread and rest operators make our lives easier and are more flexible when sending arguments and working with arrays.

Arrow functions

Arrow functions are a special way of writing functions that can be confusing at first. Their use looks like this:

(param1, param2) => body of the function;

Or for no parameters:

() => body of the function;

Or for one parameter (no parentheses are needed here):

param => body of the function;

Or for a multiline function with two parameters:

(param1, param2) => {
  // line 1;
  // any number of lines;
};

Arrow functions are useful whenever you want to write an implementation on the...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime