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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

Transpilation

Transpilation is defined as source-to-source compilation. Tools have been written to do this and they are called transpilers. Transpilers take the source code and convert it into another language. Transpilers are important for two reasons. First, not every browser supports every new syntax in ES6, and second, many developers use programming languages based off of JavaScript, such as CoffeeScript or TypeScript.

Note

The ES6 compatibility table can be found at https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/.

Looking at the ES6 browser compatibility table clearly shows us that there are some holes in support. A transpiler allows us to write our code in ES6 and translate it into vanilla ES5, which works in every browser. It is critical to ensure that our code works on as many web platforms as possible. Transpilers can be an invaluable tool for ensuring compatibility.

Transpilers also allow us to develop web or server side applications in other programming languages...

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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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