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Hands-On JavaScript High Performance

You're reading from   Hands-On JavaScript High Performance Build faster web apps using Node.js, Svelte.js, and WebAssembly

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838821098
Length 376 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Justin Scherer Justin Scherer
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Tools for High Performance on the Web 2. Immutability versus Mutability - The Balance between Safety and Speed FREE CHAPTER 3. Vanilla Land - Looking at the Modern Web 4. Practical Example - A Look at Svelte and Being Vanilla 5. Switching Contexts - No DOM, Different Vanilla 6. Message Passing - Learning about the Different Types 7. Streams - Understanding Streams and Non-Blocking I/O 8. Data Formats - Looking at Different Data Types Other Than JSON 9. Practical Example - Building a Static Server 10. Workers - Learning about Dedicated and Shared Workers 11. Service Workers - Caching and Making Things Faster 12. Building and Deploying a Full Web Application 13. WebAssembly - A Brief Look into Native Code on the Web 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Getting Node.js

Previous chapters have asked for a Node.js runtime. In this chapter, we will take a look at how we can get this installed on our system. If we head over to https://Node.js.org/en/, we will be able to download either the Long-Term Support (LTS) version or the current version. For this book, it is recommended to get the current version as the module support is better.

For Windows, all we need to do is download and run the executable. For OS X and Linux, this should also be simple. For Linux users especially, there may be a version in the repository manager for a specific distribution, but this version may be old or line up with the LTS version. Remember: we want to be running the latest version of Node.js.

Once we have it installed, we should be able to invoke the node command from any command line (Linux users may have to invoke the Node.js command since some repositories...

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