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JavaScript from Frontend to Backend

You're reading from   JavaScript from Frontend to Backend Learn full stack JavaScript development using the MEVN stack with quick and easy steps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801070317
Length 336 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Eric Sarrion Eric Sarrion
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: JavaScript Syntax
2. Chapter 1: Exploring the Core Concepts of JavaScript FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Exploring the Advanced Concepts of JavaScript 4. Part 2: JavaScript on the Client-Side
5. Chapter 3: Getting Started with Vue.js 6. Chapter 4: Advanced Concepts of Vue.js 7. Chapter 5: Managing a List with Vue.js 8. Part 3: JavaScript on the Server-Side
9. Chapter 6: Creating and Using Node.js Modules 10. Chapter 7: Using Express with Node.js 11. Chapter 8: Using MongoDB with Node.js 12. Chapter 9: Integrating Vue.js with Node.js 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Classes and objects

The notion of classes and objects is fundamental to programming languages. JavaScript allows them to be used as well.

A class is used to represent any type of data. For example, people, customers, cars, and so on. We can define a class to represent each of these types of elements, for example, a Person class to represent people, a Client class to represent customers, and a Car class to represent cars.

Note

Note that the class name traditionally begins with an uppercase letter.

An object, on the other hand, will be a particular element of a class (this element will be also called an instance). For example, among all the people of the class Person, the person identified by his name “Clinton” and his first name “Bill” represents a particular object of the class Person. This object can be associated, for example, with the variable p in the program. We can thus create variables to identify each object associated with the class...

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