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Professional JavaScript for Web Developers

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2019
Publisher Wiley
ISBN-13 9781119366447
Length 1144 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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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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FUNCTIONS AS VALUES

Because function names in ECMAScript are nothing more than variables, functions can be used anywhere variables can be used. This means it's possible not only to pass a function into another function as an argument, but also to return a function as the result of another function. Consider the following function:

function callSomeFunction(someFunction, someArgument) {
 return someFunction(someArgument);
}

This function accepts two arguments. The first argument should be a function, and the second argument should be a value to pass to that function. Any function can then be passed in as follows:

function add10(num) {
 return num + 10;
}
          
let result1 = callSomeFunction(add10, 10);
console.log(result1); // 20
          
function getGreeting(name) {
 return "Hello, " + name;
}
          
let result2 = callSomeFunction(getGreeting, "Nicholas");
console.log(result2);  // "Hello, Nicholas"

The callSomeFunction() function is generic...

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