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

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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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JSON

WHAT'S IN THIS CHAPTER?

Understanding JSON syntax
JSON parsing
JSON serialization

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There was a time when XML was the de facto standard for transmitting structured data over the internet. The first iteration of web services was largely XML-based, highlighting its target of server-to-server communication. XML was not, however, without its detractors. Some believed that the language was overly verbose and redundant. Several solutions arose to counter these problems, but the web had already started moving in a new direction.

Douglas Crockford first specified JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) as IETF RFC 4627 in 2006, even though it was in use as early as 2001. JSON is a strict subset of JavaScript, making use of several patterns found...

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