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Web Developer's Reference Guide

You're reading from   Web Developer's Reference Guide A one-stop guide to the essentials of web development including popular frameworks such as jQuery, Bootstrap, AngularJS, and Node.js

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2016
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ISBN-13 9781783552139
Length 838 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. HTML Elements FREE CHAPTER 2. HTML Attributes 3. CSS Concepts and Applications 4. CSS Properties – Part 1 5. CSS Properties – Part 2 6. CSS Properties – Part 3 7. CSS Functions 8. JavaScript Implementations, Syntax Basics, and Variable Types 9. JavaScript Expressions, Operators, Statements, and Arrays 10. JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming 11. Extending JavaScript and ECMAScript 6 12. Server-side JavaScript – NodeJS 13. Bootstrap – The Stylish CSS Frontend Framework 14. jQuery – The Popular JavaScript Library 15. AngularJS – Google's In-Demand Framework Index

Functions and methods


A function is a part of code that does a particular operation that is written by the user and called by name independently. A function may be passed some data and it may also return some data. On the other hand, you can think of methods as defined properties of objects that can be called with reference from the object of the class only. Objects that are associated with methods are basically window objects. The syntax of defining a method and a function is different in JavaScript. Methods are only used to define window objects. The way of defining a method is different than defining a function in JavaScript.

Invoking functions

The four different ways of invoking a function are as follows:

  • Invoking a function as a function

  • Invoking a function as a method

  • Invoking a function as a constructor

  • Invoking a function with a function method

All these methods were discussed in detail in the previous chapter. There is a different way of initializing the this keyword. When you call a function...

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