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Hands-on JavaScript for Python Developers

You're reading from  Hands-on JavaScript for Python Developers

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838648121
Pages 410 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Author (1):
Sonyl Nagale Sonyl Nagale
Profile icon Sonyl Nagale

Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1 - What is JavaScript? What is it not?
2. The Entrance of JavaScript into Mainstream Programming 3. Can We Use JavaScript Server-Side? Sure! 4. Nitty-Gritty Grammar 5. Data and Your Friend, JSON 6. Section 2 - Using JavaScript on the Front-End
7. Hello World! and Beyond: Your First Application 8. The Document Object Model (DOM) 9. Events, Event-Driven Design, and APIs 10. Working with Frameworks and Libraries 11. Deciphering Error Messages and Performance Leaks 12. JavaScript, Ruler of the Frontend 13. Section 3 - The Back-End: Node.js vs. Python
14. What Is Node.js? 15. Node.js versus Python 16. Using Express 17. React with Django 18. Combining Node.js with the Frontend 19. Enter Webpack 20. Section 4 - Communicating with Databases
21. Security and Keys 22. Node.js and MongoDB 23. Putting It All Together 24. Assessments 25. Other Books You May Enjoy

Arrays and sets

Any programming language has some conception of an array or a collection of items that all share some common features or use. JavaScript has a few of them: arrays and sets. Both of these structures contain items, and in many ways, they are similar in usage, too, in that they can be enumerated, iterated over, and displayed for purposes of logical construction.

Let's first look at arrays.

Arrays

Arrays can contain different data types. This is a fully viable array:

const myArray = ['hello',1,'goodbye',null,true,1,'hello',{ 0 : 1 }]

It contains strings, numbers, Booleans, null, and an object. This is fine! While in practice you may not be mixing data types, there's nothing preventing you from doing so.

There is a quirk about using typeof() on arrays: since they're not true primitives, typeof(myArray) will return object. You should keep that in mind as you write JavaScript.

As we saw before in Chapter 3, Nitty-Gritty Grammar, ...

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