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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

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Web Programming

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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

Introducing ECMAScript 6

Learning Objectives

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:

Define the different scopes in JavaScript and characterize variable declaration
Simplify JavaScript object definitions
Destructure objects and arrays, and build classes and modules
Transpile JavaScript for compatibility
Compose iterators and generators

In this chapter, you'll be learning how to use the new syntax and concepts of ECMAScript.

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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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