JavaScript Cookbook
Programming the Web
3rd Edition
Published on 31. July 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
650 pages
978-1-4920-5575-4 (ISBN)
Description
Why reinvent the wheel every time you run into a problem with JavaScript? This cookbook is chock-full of code recipes for common programming tasks, along with techniques for building apps that work in any browser. You'll get adaptable code samples that you can add to almost any project--and you'll learn more about JavaScript in the process.
The recipes in this book take advantage of the latest features in ECMAScript 2020 and beyond and use modern JavaScript coding standards. You'll learn how to:
Set up a productive development environment with a code editor, linter, and test server
Work with JavaScript data types, such as strings, arrays, and BigInts
Improve your understanding of JavaScript functions, including arrow functions, closures, and generators
Apply object-oriented programming concepts like classes and inheritance
Work with rich media in JavaScript, including audio, video, and SVGs
Manipulate HTML markup and CSS styles
Use JavaScript anywhere with Node.js
Access and manipulate remote data with REST, GraphQL, and Fetch
Get started with the popular Express application-building framework
Perform asynchronous operations with Promises, async/await, and web workers
The recipes in this book take advantage of the latest features in ECMAScript 2020 and beyond and use modern JavaScript coding standards. You'll learn how to:
Set up a productive development environment with a code editor, linter, and test server
Work with JavaScript data types, such as strings, arrays, and BigInts
Improve your understanding of JavaScript functions, including arrow functions, closures, and generators
Apply object-oriented programming concepts like classes and inheritance
Work with rich media in JavaScript, including audio, video, and SVGs
Manipulate HTML markup and CSS styles
Use JavaScript anywhere with Node.js
Access and manipulate remote data with REST, GraphQL, and Fetch
Get started with the popular Express application-building framework
Perform asynchronous operations with Promises, async/await, and web workers
More details
Edition
3rd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Sebastopol
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 179 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
930 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4920-5575-4 (9781492055754)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Previous edition
Shelley Powers
JavaScript Cookbook
Book
03/2015
2nd Edition
O'Reilly
€41.00
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Persons
Adam D. Scott is an engineering manager, web developer, and educator based in Connecticut. He currently works as the web development lead at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where he focuses on building open source tools. Additionally, he has worked in education for over a decade, teaching and writing curriculum on a range of technical topics. He is the author of WordPress for Education (Packt, 2012), the Introduction to Modern Front-End Development video course (O'Reilly 2015), the Ethical Web Development report series (O'Reilly 2016-2017), and JavaScript Everywhere (O'Reilly 2020).Matthew MacDonald is a science and technology writer with dozens of books to his name. Over the years, he's written about programming, web design, and nature's weirdest computing tool-the human brain. These days he's exploring quirky content for kids, including a free interactive guide for learning to write JavaScript. Shelley Powers has been working with, and writing about, web technologies--from the first release of JavaScript to the latest graphics and design tools--for more than 17 years. Her recent O'Reilly books have covered Node, the semantic web, Ajax, JavaScript, and web graphics. Shelley is also interested in food safety, sustainable agriculture, animal welfare, and writing.