Whether building interactive browser-based applications or creating server-side applications in Node, JavaScript is the most widely used language for web programming. With new features, language improvements, paradigms, and potential use cases appearing regularly, there’s never been a more exciting time to be a JavaScript developer. In The Joy of JavaScript, author and JavaScript expert Luis Atencio teaches you key design concepts that lead to clean, lean, modular, and easy-to-maintain code.
About the Technology JavaScript is at the heart of web applications on the browser side and, via the popular Node.js runtime, it often powers the server side too. Simply put, the web runs on JavaScript.
About the Book The Joy of JavaScript introduces techniques that turn JavaScript programmers into JavaScript pros. You’ll work with cutting edge APIs, language features, and coding styles to tackle tricky problems in an elegant manner. Along the way, you’ll practice good object design, drive business logic with functional thinking, and untangle complex data flows.
What's Inside
JavaScript’s objects and module system
Working with higher order functions
Identifying and creating composable software
Preparing for upcoming JavaScript features
About the Reader Written for experienced and passionate JavaScript developers.
About the Author Luis Atencio is a software engineer for Citrix Systems, author of Manning’s Functional Programming in JavaScript, and co-author of Manning’s RxJS in Action.
Quotes Goes beyond purely functional programming concepts and covers every topic a developer needs to know while reading or writing JavaScript. - Gleb Bahmutov, Cypress.io
The actual joy here was reading it! The definitive guide to becoming a JavaScript professional. - Ubaldo Pescatore, Generali Business Solutions
Teaches modern JavaScript features and techniques with concise descriptions and code samples that feel like they came from a real application. - Nate Clark, Base Camp Coding Academy
A must-read for every JavaScript developer wanting to upskill. - Lora Vardarova, CoGo
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