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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838641917

Length 802 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

JavaScriptMVC

Concepts

Programming Language

Authors (8):

Jahred Love

Alonzo L. Hosford

Florian Sloot

Daniel Rosenbaum

Philip Kirkbride

Nick Turner

Gaurav Mehla

Joseph Labrecque

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

About the Book

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

AJAX

AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML and is an umbrella term for a set of technologies to communicate with servers and other sites in various formats, including JSON and XML.

Most JavaScript is synchronous, which means there is only a single thread of execution, and only one operation can be executed at a time. If browsers were truly synchronous, websites would be a drag to use, as only one resource would be able to load at a time. Imagine if the images on websites only drew one at a time after loading! Sometimes, requests can take a long time, such as to do a calculation or a complex database query. You wouldn't want your site to become non-responsive while a request is processing!

Luckily, service calls were designed to allow multiple calls to occur asynchronously. Also, in between requests being made and a response is received, the main thread of execution can continue to execute and potentially issue more service calls. This is the "A" in AJAX...

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Authors (8)

Joseph Labrecque

Joseph Labrecque

Joseph Labrecque is a creative developer, designer, and educator with nearly two decades of experience creating expressive web, desktop, and mobile solutions. He joined the University of Colorado Boulder College of Media, Communication and Information as faculty with the Department of Advertising, Public Relations and Media Design in Autumn 2019. His teaching focuses on creative software, digital workflows, user interaction, and design principles and concepts. Before joining the faculty at CU Boulder, he was associated with the University of Denver as adjunct faculty and as a senior interactive software engineer, user interface developer, and digital media designer. Labrecque has authored a number of books and video course publications on design and development technologies, tools, and concepts through publishers which include LinkedIn Learning, Apress, Peachpit, Packt, and Adobe. He has spoken at large design and technology conferences such as Adobe MAX and for a variety of smaller creative communities. He is also the founder of Fractured Vision Media, LLC; a digital media production studio and distribution vehicle for a variety of creative works. Joseph is an Adobe Education Leader, Adobe Community Expert, and member of Adobe Partners by Design. He holds a bachelor's degree in communication from Worcester State University and a master's degree in digital media studies from the University of Denver.

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Alonzo L. Hosford

Alonzo L. Hosford

Alonzo L. Hosford is a website developer, trainer, and author. He is the founder CEO of Click Systems Consulting, LLC specializing in WordPress websites and of the Web Skills Bootcamp teaching web developer skill courses. Alonzo is an assistant adjunct professor and curriculum creator of web technology at Raritan Valley Community College.

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Gaurav Mehla

Gaurav Mehla

Gaurav Mehla is a full-stack developer who has built web, desktop, and hybrid mobile applications on JavaScript. He has 8 years of solid JavaScript experience. He is currently leading a very productive team in a startup.

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Nick Turner

Nick Turner

Nick Turner is a software engineer and life-long technology enthusiast. He specializes in building web, mobile, and desktop applications using modern JavaScript frameworks. An advocate of distributed teams, Nick runs a small software company helping its clients to launch exciting, transformative products out into the world.

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Daniel Rosenbaum

Daniel Rosenbaum

Daniel Rosenbaum has more than 20 years of experience as a solutions architect, technical lead, and developer with a demonstrated history of working in information technology for health and financial services. He is a strong engineering professional skilled in enterprise architecture and agile software development of many web-based and back-end data systems.

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Jahred Love

Jahred Love

Jahred Love is a co-founder and CTO of Xirsys LLC, CPO of Millicast, co-founder and CTO of Innov8Estate and CTO of PLP London. A serial entrepreneur, Jahred has been a software engineer working with JavaScript for the last 20 years, building everything from games and applications to distributed real-time platforms and Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

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Florian Sloot

Florian Sloot

Florian Sloot is a tech-lover since childhood and during his development years, he learned the importance of teaching and guiding. Therefore, as he got some experience with building applications, he started publishing learning resources himself. To date, he has taught hundreds of students and co-workers.

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Philip Kirkbride

Philip Kirkbride

Philip Kirkbride has over 5 years of experience with JavaScript and is based in Montreal. He graduated from a technical college in 2011 and since then he has been working with web technologies in various roles.

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