CHAPTER 5
JavaScript Primer
In this chapter I provide a quick tour of the most important features of the JavaScript language, as they apply to this book. I don’t have the space to describe JavaScript completely, but I have focused on the essentials that you’ll need to get up to speed and follow the examples in this book. In addition to the most important core JavaScript language features, I describe the set of utility methods that AngularJS provides.
I finish this chapter by demonstrating how JavaScript promises work. A promise represents an asynchronous task, such as an Ajax request, and they are widely used in AngularJS apps, which is a topic ...
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