June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
334 pages
7h 10m
English
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Preface
Back in 1998, when I was using FrontPage for all my web development needs at school, if someone had told me that I’d end up working on the web for a living, I would’ve probably chuckled. JavaScript has grown along with us in all the years since, and it’s hard to imagine how the web could’ve thrived without it. Bit by bit, this book will give you a comprehensive picture of the modern JavaScript landscape.
Who Should Read This Book
This book is meant for web developers, enthusiasts, and professionals with a working knowledge of plain JavaScript. These developers and anyone looking to further their understanding of the JavaScript language shall benefit from reading Practical Modern JavaScript.
Why Modern JavaScript?
The goal of this book is to provide an approachable way of learning the latest developments in JavaScript: ES6 and later. ES6 was a huge update to the language, and it came out around the same time as a streamlined specification development process. Around this time I wrote quite a few blog posts about the different features in ES6, which became a bit popular. There are quite a few other books on ES6 out there, but they’re a little different from what I had in mind for a book on ES6 and beyond. This book tries to explain features in detail without getting caught up in the specification, its implementation details, or unlikely corner cases that would almost certainly need to be researched online if happened upon.
Instead of extreme thoroughness, the book places ...
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