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

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2019

Publisher Wiley

ISBN-13 9781119366447

Length 1144 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Combine

Concepts

Web Programming

Author (1):

Matt Frisbie

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Table of Contents (37) Chapters

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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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INTRODUCTION

A tech lead at Google once shared with me a compelling perspective on JavaScript: It's not really a cohesive programming language—at least not in the formal sense. The ECMA-262 specification defines JavaScript, but there is no single true implementation of it. What's more, the language is far from hermetic. It swims in a veritable ocean of adjacent specifications that govern APIs for everything that JavaScript touches: the DOM, network requests, system hardware, storage, events, files, cryptography, and hundreds of others. Web browsers and their various JavaScript engines all implement these specifications as they see fit. Chrome has Blink/V8, Firefox has Gecko/SpiderMoney, and Safari has WebKit/JavaScriptCore. Browsers will run nearly all JavaScript in a way that conforms to the specifications, but the web is littered with examples of each browser's idiosyncrasies. Therefore, JavaScript is more accurately characterized as a constellation of browser...