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Professional JavaScript

You're reading from   Professional JavaScript Fast-track your web development career using the powerful features of advanced JavaScript

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2019
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ISBN-13 9781838820213
Length 664 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Hugo Di Francesco Hugo Di Francesco
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Siyuan Gao Siyuan Gao
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Vinicius Isola Vinicius Isola
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Philip Kirkbride Philip Kirkbride
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Preface 1. JavaScript, HTML, and the DOM 2. Node.js and npm FREE CHAPTER 3. Node.js APIs and Web Scraping 4. RESTful APIs with Node.js 5. Modular JavaScript 6. Code Quality 7. Advanced JavaScript 8. Asynchronous Programming 9. Event-Driven Programming and Built-In Modules 10. Functional Programming with JavaScript Appendix

Node Version Manager (nvm)

Node.js and JavaScript have a huge community and a very fast-paced development cycle. Because of this rapid development and its release cycles, it is very easy to become out of date (check Node.js's previous releases page for more information: https://nodejs.org/en/download/releases/).

Can you imagine working on a project that uses Node.js and is a few years old? By the time you come back to fix a bug, you will notice that the version you have installed can't run the code anymore because of some compatibility issues. Or, you will find that you can't change the code using your current version since what is running in production is a couple of years old and doesn't have async/await or some other lifesaving feature you use a lot in the most recent version.

That issue happens with all programming languages and development environments, but in Node.js, this is prominent because of the extremely fast release cycles.

To solve this, it...

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