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Advanced JavaScript

You're reading from   Advanced JavaScript Speed up web development with the powerful features and benefits of JavaScript

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789800104
Length 330 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Zachary Shute Zachary Shute
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JavaScript Ecosystem


There are four main categories of the JavaScript ecosystem that we will discuss: frontend, command-line interface, mobile, and backend.

  • Front-end JavaScript is used for user-facing websites.

  • Command-line interface (CLI) JavaScript is used for building command-line tasks to assist developers.

  • Mobile development JavaScript is used to build mobile phone apps.

  • Backend JavaScript is used to build web servers and services.

For a language that was created originally to embed simple applications in browsers, JavaScript has come a long way.

Frontend JavaScript

Frontend JavaScript is used for creating complicated and dynamic user-facing websites. Websites such as Facebook, Google Maps, Spotify, and YouTube rely heavily on JavaScript. In frontend development, JavaScript is used to manipulate the DOM and handle events. Many JavaScript libraries, such as jQuery, have been created to increase the efficiency and ease of JavaScript DOM manipulation by wrapping the DOM manipulation APIs of...

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