February 2015
Intermediate to advanced
634 pages
13h 29m
English
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The World of JavaScript
I wrote my first book on JavaScript in 1996. At the time, we had to really dig to fill the book. This was before DHTML, before ECMAScript, before mobile development, and definitely before Node.js. Form validation and popping up alerts were the big things. With this second edition of the JavaScript Cookbook, I had the opposite problem: the world of JavaScript is just too immense to stuff into one book. But I gave it my all.
The world of JavaScript is the key to this book. The use of JavaScript has expanded from the browser to the server, to the mobile environment, to the cloud. We’ve gone beyond simple libraries to complex modular systems; from basic animations to rich data visualizations, with a little audio and video tossed in for fun and giggles. Entire applications are served in one HTML page thanks to sophisticated frameworks, and MEAN is no longer an adjective to apply to nasty folk.
Ajax is still around and still relevant, but now it’s joined by direct and immediate bidirectional communication—no more having to fake server-client communication, because we have it, for real. We can connect to Twitter and Dropbox, create apps for Android devices, and open ePub files directly in the browser for reading. The libraries and modules available in both the client and server take care of so much of the complex, tedious bits, that we can focus on creating what’s unique to our applications. Ten years ago, we’d be surprised at finding a library that met our needs. ...
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