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Web Developer's Reference Guide

A one-stop guide to the essentials of web development including popular frameworks such as jQuery, Bootstrap, AngularJS, and Node.js

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A one-stop guide to the essentials of web development including popular frameworks such as jQuery, Bootstrap, AngularJS, and Node.js

Key Features

  • Understand the essential elements of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, including how and when to use them
  • Walk through three of the best and most popular web development frameworks – jQuery, Bootstrap, and AngularJS
  • References for any function you will need in your day-to-day web development

Book Description

This comprehensive reference guide takes you through each topic in web development and highlights the most popular and important elements of each area.
Starting with HTML, you will learn key elements and attributes and how they relate to each other. Next, you will explore CSS pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements, followed by CSS properties and functions. This will introduce you to many powerful and new selectors. You will then move on to JavaScript. This section will not just introduce functions, but will provide you with an entire reference for the language and paradigms. You will discover more about three of the most popular frameworks today—Bootstrap, which builds on CSS, jQuery which builds on JavaScript, and AngularJS, which also builds on JavaScript. Finally, you will take a walk-through Node.js, which is a server-side framework that allows you to write programs in JavaScript.

What you will learn

  • Explore detailed explanations of all the major HTML elements and attributes, illustrated with examples
  • Take a deep dive into CSS properties and functions and master their usage
  • Find clear, concise descriptions of JavaScript syntax and expressions
  • Recognize various JavaScript design patterns and learn the basics of JavaScript object-orientated programming
  • Implement the latest ECMAScript 6 for client-side scripting in your web applications
  • Discover new ways to develop your website s front end quickly and easily using Bootstrap
  • Write JavaScript extensibly using jQuery-JavaScript s feature-rich library
  • Delve into the key Node.js modules used in JavaScript server-side programming
  • Access AngularJS s important modules, controllers, directives, and services quickly

Who this book is for

This book is perfect for beginners but more advanced web developers will also benefit. Laid out so you can refer to as much or as little as you need to, with this book you can exhaustively explore essential concepts for modern web developers.

Table of Contents

  1. HTML elements
  2. HTML attributes
  3. CSS Pseudo-class and pseudo-elements
  4. CSS Properties -Part 1
  5. CSS Properties - Part 2
  6. CSS Properties- Part 3
  7. CSS Functions
  8. JavaScript implementations, syntax basics and variable types
  9. JavaScript expressions, operators, statements and arrays
  10. JavaScript Object-Orientated Programming
  11. Extending JavaScript and ECMA Script 6
  12. Server-side JavaScript - NodeJS
  13. Bootstrap
  14. jQuery
  15. AngularJS
PDF ISBN: 978-1-78355-214-6
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2016 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2025
Language: English
Pages: 838