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JavaScript: Functional Programming for JavaScript Developers
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JavaScript: Functional Programming for JavaScript Developers

by Ved Antani, Simon Timms, Dan Mantyla
August 2016
Intermediate to advanced
635 pages
14h 5m
English
Packt Publishing
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Working with browser events

When are you developing for browsers, you will have to deal with user interactions and events associated to them, for example, text typed in the textbox, scrolling of the page, mouse button press, and others. When the user does something on the page, an event takes place. Some events are not triggered by user interaction, for example, load event does not require a user input.

When you are dealing with mouse or keyboard events in the browser, you can't predict when and in which order these events will occur. You will have to constantly look for a key press or mouse move to happen. It's like running an endless background loop listening to some key or mouse event to happen. In traditional programming, this was known as ...

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