Development and coding review

Before we move to the meat of this chapter, it is worth quickly reviewing some basic web development concepts and approaches. Specifically, let's consider the following:

• JavaScript Development Tools

• WebKit browsers

• HTML5, CSS3, and the viewport

• Web server setup

JavaScript development tools

Often, when developers embark on a new programming project, they turn to their favorite integrated development environment or IDE. There are many IDEs in the JavaScript world; these include intelliJ IDEA, Aptana, WebStorm, and Visual Studio. One of the beauties of JavaScript development is that any simple text editor will suffice. Notepad++ is a free and excellent source code editor for Windows. Chrome's DevTools is also very popular with JavaScript developers. This is a set of web authoring and debugging tools that is built into Google Chrome. To access Chrome's DevTools, download the current version of the Chrome browser.

Note

Chrome can be downloaded from https://www.google.com...