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Coding with JavaScript For Dummies
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Coding with JavaScript For Dummies

by Chris Minnick, Eva Holland
May 2015
Beginner content levelBeginner
360 pages
6h 39m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 21

Ten Online Tools to Help You Write Better JavaScript

In This Chapter

arrow Cleaning up with JSLint

arrow Playing with JSFiddle

arrow Making it pretty with JSbeautifier

arrow Making your JavaScript files smaller

Never underestimate the power of a simple tool.

— Craig Bruce

JavaScript has more libraries, resources, and helpful tools for working with it than for any other programming language. This chapter introduces ten of the best resources for helping you write more and better JavaScript.

ontheweb Don’t forget to visit the website to check out the online exercises relevant to this chapter!

JSLint

JSLint, created by JavaScript super-genius Douglas Crockford, is a code checker that is designed to tell you where your code has problems — and not just the kind of problems that would generate errors.

JSLint, shown in Figure 21-1, will tell you about things that thousands of JavaScript programmers do all the time, but that are problematic for one reason or another. If your code passes JSLint’s tests, ...

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