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Advanced JavaScript

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

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2019

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781789800104

Length 330 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Construct

Concepts

Web Programming

Author (1):

Zachary Shute

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

About the Book

1. Chapter 1 FREE CHAPTER

2. Introducing ECMAScript 6

3. Chapter 2

4. Asynchronous JavaScript

5. Chapter 3

6. DOM Manipulation and Event Handling

7. Chapter 4

8. Testing JavaScript

9. Chapter 5

10. Functional Programming

11. Chapter 6

12. The JavaScript Ecosystem

Appendix

Node.js

Node.js (Node for short), which was developed in 2009 by Ryan Dahl, is the most popular out-of-browser JavaScript engine. Node is an open source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that was based on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. It is used to run JavaScript code outside of the browser for non-client, side applications.

Like Google's V8 JavaScript engine in Chrome, Node.js uses a singly-threaded, event-driven, asynchronous architecture. It allows developers to use JavaScript's event-driven programming style to build web servers, services, and CLI tools. As discussed in Chapter 2, Asynchronous JavaScript, JavaScript is a non-blocking and event-driven programming language. JavaScript's asynchronous nature (a single-threaded event loop), along with Node's lightweight design, allows us to build very scalable network applications without worrying about threading.

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Authors (1)

Zachary Shute

Zachary Shute

Zachary Shute studied computer and systems engineering at RPI. He is now the lead full-stack engineer at a machine learning start-up in San Francisco, CA. For his company, Simple Emotion, he manages and deploys Node.js servers, a MongoDB database, and JavaScript and HTML websites.

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