Professional JavaScript for Web Developers

Description

Update your skill set for ES 6 and 7 with the ultimate JavaScript guide for pros

Professional JavaScript for Web Developers is the essential guide to next-level JavaScript development. Written for intermediate-to-advanced programmers, this book jumps right into the technical details to help you clean up your code and become a more sophisticated JavaScript developer. From JavaScript-specific object-oriented programming and inheritance, to combining JavaScript with HTML and other markup languages, expert instruction walks you through the fundamentals and beyond. This new fourth edition has been updated to cover ECMAScript 6 and 7 (also known as ES2015 and ES2016) and the major re-imagination and departure from ES 5.1; new frameworks and libraries, new techniques, new testing tools, and more are explained in detail for the professional developer, with a practical focus that helps you put your new skills to work on real-world projects.

The latest—and most dramatic—ES release is already being incorporated into JavaScript engines in major browsers; this, coupled with the rise in mobile web traffic increasing demand for responsive, dynamic web design, means that all web developers need to update their skills—and this book is your ideal resource for quick, relevant guidance.

• Get up to date with ECMAScript 6 and 7, new frameworks, and new libraries
• Delve into web animation, emerging APIs, and build systems
• Test more effectively with mocks, unit tests, functional tests, and other tools
• Plan your builds for future ES releases

Even if you think you know JavaScript, new ES releases bring big changes that will affect the way you work. For a professional-level update that doesn’t waste time on coding fundamentals, Professional JavaScript for Web Developers is the ultimate resource to bring you up to speed.

Table of Contents

1. FOREWORD xlvii
2. INTRODUCTION xlix
3. CHAPTER 1: WHAT IS JAVASCRIPT? 1
4. CHAPTER 2: JAVASCRIPT IN HTML 13
5. CHAPTER 3: LANGUAGE BASICS 25
6. CHAPTER 4: VARIABLES, SCOPE, AND MEMORY 101
7. CHAPTER 5: BASIC REFERENCE TYPES 125
8. CHAPTER 6: COLLECTION REFERENCE TYPES 167
9. CHAPTER 7: ITERATORS AND GENERATORS 225
10. CHAPTER 8: OBJECTS, CLASSES, AND OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING 251
11. CHAPTER 9: PROXIES AND REFLECT 323
12. CHAPTER 10: FUNCTIONS 349
13. CHAPTER 11: PROMISES AND ASYNC FUNCTIONS 391
14. CHAPTER 12: THE BROWSER OBJECT MODEL 437
15. CHAPTER 13: CLIENT DETECTION 465
16. CHAPTER 14: THE DOCUMENT OBJECT MODEL 491
17. CHAPTER 15: DOM EXTENSIONS 543
18. CHAPTER 16: DOM LEVELS 2 AND 3 563
19. CHAPTER 17: EVENTS 601
20. CHAPTER 18: ANIMATION AND GRAPHICS WITH CANVAS 671
21. CHAPTER 19: SCRIPTING FORMS 707
22. CHAPTER 20: JAVASCRIPT APIS 743
23. CHAPTER 21: ERROR HANDLING AND DEBUGGING 823
24. CHAPTER 22: XML IN JAVASCRIPT 849
25. CHAPTER 23: JSON 861
26. CHAPTER 24: NETWORK REQUESTS AND REMOTE RESOURCES 871
27. CHAPTER 25: CLIENT-SIDE STORAGE 919
28. CHAPTER 26: MODULES 945
29. CHAPTER 27: WORKERS 969
30. CHAPTER 28: BEST PRACTICES 1035
31. APPENDIX A: ES2018 AND ES2019 1067
32. APPENDIX B: STRICT MODE 1087
33. APPENDIX C: JAVASCRIPT LIBRARIES AND FRAMEWORKS 1095
34. APPENDIX D: JAVASCRIPT TOOLS 1101
35. INDEX 1113

Author Biography

Matt Frisbie has a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Angular 2 Cookbook and AngularJS Web Application Development Cookbook, as well as a number of video series for O’Reilly. Matt is actively involved in the JavaScript community, giving talks at meetups and doing open webcasts. He works as a software engineer at Google.