Chapter 7
Building Reactive Pages with Events
IN THIS CHAPTER
Getting to know events
Checking out the different event types
Setting up event listeners
Gleaning info about an event
Trying out a few events
Handle your tools without mittens.
— BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
When you buy a car, no matter how much you paid for it or how technologically advanced it is, the car just sits there unless you do something. (If you’re reading this in a future in which all cars are autonomous, my apologies.) Having a car just sitting there may be fine if it’s a good-looking car, but you're likely to want the car to do something, anything. Here’s a short list of actions you can take to achieve that goal:
- Start the car.
- Put the transmission into gear.
- Press the accelerator.
- Turn on the radio.
The common denominator for all these actions is that they set up a situation to which the car must respond in some way: turning on, engaging the gears, moving, playing sounds. Approached from this angle, the car is a ...
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