June 2025
Beginner to intermediate
912 pages
30h 4m
English
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Chapter 25. Next-Level JavaScript
25
Next-Level JavaScript
by Aaron Gustafson
In This Chapter
JavaScript libraries
Web components
Frameworks
Using JavaScript outside the browser
Progressive web apps
By this point, you have a solid foundation in what JavaScript is, how it works, and how to use it. You know how to create variables and functions. You understand many of the different value types in JavaScript, such as strings, numbers, Booleans, arrays, and nodes. You know how to generate and alter HTML markup. You also know how to enable interactivity using JavaScript events.
Even with all the knowledge you’ve gained thus far, we’ve only just scratched the surface when it comes to JavaScript. I want to take this opportunity to introduce a handful of more complex topics you should know about if you plan to pursue a career in web development. The topics I’ll be covering in this chapter are considerably more advanced than where we left things at the end of Chapter 24, Working with the DOM and Events, but they will help you get a sense of the directions you could take your career in if you’ve been bitten by the JavaScript bug.
We’ll begin this grab bag of a chapter by discussing JavaScript libraries and how to integrate them. We’ll follow that with an introduction to web components as a way of making JavaScript user interfaces more portable between projects. Then we’ll shift gears to talk about JavaScript frameworks as ready-built sets of tools for rapidly building large web ...
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