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Hands-on JavaScript for Python Developers

You're reading from   Hands-on JavaScript for Python Developers Leverage your Python knowledge to quickly learn JavaScript and advance your web development career

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838648121
Length 410 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sonyl Nagale Sonyl Nagale
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Preface 1. Section 1 - What is JavaScript? What is it not?
2. The Entrance of JavaScript into Mainstream Programming FREE CHAPTER 3. Can We Use JavaScript Server-Side? Sure! 4. Nitty-Gritty Grammar 5. Data and Your Friend, JSON 6. Section 2 - Using JavaScript on the Front-End
7. Hello World! and Beyond: Your First Application 8. The Document Object Model (DOM) 9. Events, Event-Driven Design, and APIs 10. Working with Frameworks and Libraries 11. Deciphering Error Messages and Performance Leaks 12. JavaScript, Ruler of the Frontend 13. Section 3 - The Back-End: Node.js vs. Python
14. What Is Node.js? 15. Node.js versus Python 16. Using Express 17. React with Django 18. Combining Node.js with the Frontend 19. Enter Webpack 20. Section 4 - Communicating with Databases
21. Security and Keys 22. Node.js and MongoDB 23. Putting It All Together 24. Assessments 25. Other Books You May Enjoy

Input validation and error handling

One part about dynamic data that we can see that might be important for an application such as this is input validation and error handling. Notice how in our application, if the email field is blank or we haven't entered a valid email, it will have a red outline. Otherwise, it will have a green outline. As you type a valid email address and select the next field, you can see that the red outline will change to green without hitting the server (except to save the data, as we discussed before). This is client-side validation, and it's extremely powerful when creating a streamlined user experience: the user does not have to hit save and wait for a server response in order to see whether they've entered incorrect data.

You might have noticed one detail when working with the Phone field: it's restricted to numbers. If you look at client/src/CustomerDetails.js, we've restricted the type to numbers here:

<Input name="phone...
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