Javascript Unlocked

Improve your code maintainability, performance, and security through practical expert insights and unlock the full potential of JavaScript

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited

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|Dec 2015

E-Book €19.99Institutions €115.95

Improve your code maintainability, performance, and security through practical expert insights and unlock the full potential of JavaScript

Key Features

Improve your JavaScript code for better maintainability and performance
Discover how to implement scalable application architecture with JavaScript
Learn to use JavaScript behind the browser, including its command-line tools, desktop apps, and native mobile apps

Book Description

JavaScript stands bestride the world like a colossus. Having conquered web development, it now advances into new areas such as server scripting, desktop and mobile development, game scripting, and more. One of the most essential languages for any modern developer, the fully-engaged JavaScript programmer need to know the tricks, non-documented features, quirks, and best practices of this powerful, adaptive language.
This all-practical guide is stuffed with code recipes and keys to help you unlock the full potential of JavaScript. Start by diving right into the core of JavaScript, with power user techniques for getting better maintainability and performance from the basic building blocks of your code. Get to grips with modular programming to bring real power to the browser, master client-side JavaScript scripting without jQuery or other frameworks, and discover the full potential of asynchronous coding. Do great things with HTML5 APIs, including building your first web component, tackle the essential requirements of writing large-scale applications, and optimize JavaScript’s performance behind the browser. Wrap up with in-depth advice and best practice for debugging and keeping your JavaScript maintainable for scaling, long-term projects. With every task demonstrated in both classic ES5 JavaScript and next generation ES6-7 versions of the language, Whether read cover-to-cover or dipped into for specific keys and recipes, JavaScript Unlocked is your essential guide for pushing JavaScript to its limits.

What you will learn

Make your code readable and expressive by using simple syntax of JavaScript
Grasp existing JavaScript collections such as arrays and array-like objects
Develop abstract data types in most effective way to extend JavaScript into a more flexible and powerful programming language
Examine the pros and cons of JavaScript by implementing real-time code examples
Flourish real-time mini-projects by using JavaScript on server side to develop desktop as well as mobile applications
Work on parallel tasks with asynchronous JavaScript
Improve code maintainability and readability and boost apps performance through JavaScript

Who this book is for

JavaScript Unlocked is for those JS developers who want to see just how far they can push their favourite language through practical insight and techniques.

Diving into JavaScript core
Modular programming with JavaScript
DOM Scripting and AJAX
HTML5 APIs
Asynchronous JavaScript
Large-Scale JavaScript Application Architecture
JavaScript behind the browser
Debugging and profiling

PDF ISBN: 978-1-78588-506-8

Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited

Publication date: 2015

Language: English

Pages: 182

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Computer sciences,

Programming and languages

Javascript Unlocked

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