You're reading from Professional JavaScript for Web Developers Discover an easy-to-learn guide to upgrade your JavaScript skills

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2019

Publisher Wiley

ISBN-13 9781119366447

Length 1144 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Combine

Concepts

Web Programming

Author (1):

Matt Frisbie

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Table of Contents (37) Chapters

COVER FREE CHAPTER

FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION

1 What Is JavaScript?

2 JavaScript in HTML

3 Language Basics

4 Variables, Scope, and Memory

5 Basic Reference Types

6 Collection Reference Types

7 Iterators and Generators

8 Objects, Classes, and Object-Oriented Programming

9 Proxies and Reflect

10 Functions

11 Promises and Async Functions

12 The Browser Object Model

13 Client Detection

14 The Document Object Model

15 DOM Extensions

16 DOM Levels 2 and 3

17 Events

18 Animation and Graphics with Canvas

19 Scripting Forms

20 JavaScript APIs

21 Error Handling and Debugging

22 XML in JavaScript

23 JSON

24 Network Requests and Remote Resources

25 Client-Side Storage

26 Modules

27 Workers

28 Best Practices

A ES2018 and ES2019

B Strict Mode

C JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks

D JavaScript Tools

INDEX

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WEBGL

WebGL is a 3D context for canvas. Unlike other web technologies, WebGL is not specified by the W3C. Instead, the Khronos Group is developing the specification. According to its website, “The Khronos Group is a not for profit, member-funded consortium focused on the creation of royalty-free open standards for parallel computing, graphics, and dynamic media on a wide variety of platforms and devices.” The Khronos Group has also worked on other graphics APIs, such as OpenGL ES 2.0, which is the basis for WebGL in the browser.

3D graphics languages such as OpenGL are complex topics, and it is beyond the scope of this book to cover all concepts. Familiarity with OpenGL ES 2.0 is recommended for using WebGL as many concepts map directly.

This section assumes a working knowledge of OpenGL ES 2.0 concepts and simply attempts to describe how certain parts of OpenGL ES 2.0 have been implemented in WebGL. For more information on OpenGL, please visit www.opengl.org, and for an...