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The JavaScript Workshop

You're reading from   The JavaScript Workshop Learn to develop interactive web applications with clean and maintainable JavaScript code

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838641917
Length 802 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jahred Love Jahred Love
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Alonzo L. Hosford Alonzo L. Hosford
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Florian Sloot Florian Sloot
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Daniel Rosenbaum Daniel Rosenbaum
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Philip Kirkbride Philip Kirkbride
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Nick Turner Nick Turner
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Gaurav Mehla Gaurav Mehla
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Joseph Labrecque Joseph Labrecque
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Preface 1. Getting to Know JavaScript 2. Working with JavaScript FREE CHAPTER 3. Programming Fundamentals 4. JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks 5. Beyond the Fundamentals 6. Understanding Core Concepts 7. Popping the Hood 8. Browser APIs 9. Working with Node.js 10. Accessing External Resources 11. Creating Clean and Maintainable Code 12. Using NextGeneration JavaScript 13. JavaScript Programming Paradigms 14. Understanding Functional Programming 15. Asynchronous Tasks Appendix

Popular JavaScript Frameworks

We have just looked at lodash.js, a library that helps developers handle data structures; (to be used, for example, making arrays unique) and Vue.js, a framework for building modular and dynamic user interfaces. These are just two examples of quite popular and widely used JS frameworks/libraries. In addition to those, there is a vast and ever-growing number of external packages you can choose from. Each one of them is useful for solving one specialized set of problems.

A few modern and often used alternatives that support creating browser applications are, for instance, React.js, Vue.js, and Angular.js. Other libraries that help you store and manage data in your app are MobX, VueX, and Redux.

Again, others can transform source code so that it supports older browser engines, for example, Babel, or handle and manipulate time for you, such as moment.js.

Then, there are frameworks such as Express.js or Hapi that let you create simple, easy...

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