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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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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

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

Introduction

So far, we know the importance of JavaScript at the browser level and its power at the server level. We have learned how to install Node.js on the system and how to write and execute code. Also, we have gained a huge amount of knowledge about the internal and external modules of Node.js. Moreover, web sockets and working with databases were also covered in the previous chapters. We learned all of this through interesting activities and exercises. Now it's time to strengthen this knowledge and learn about the root concepts of JavaScript.

In this chapter, we will go through the different types of JavaScript programming paradigms. During the learning phase of any programming language, people usually code in a procedural way; instead of planning, they put most of their focus on execution and understanding the concepts of that particular programming language. But when it comes to working on real-life problems, the procedural way is not a scalable option. Luckily, we...

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