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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2016

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781783552139

Length 838 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

Web Programming

Authors (3):

Joshua Johanan

Talha Khan

Ricardo Zea

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

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

Shorthand functions

Shorthand function, also known as expression closure, is a technique to use simple functions in JavaScript. It is used to omit a function's curly brackets in the event; it returns a true or false statement. Similarly, if you omit the return keyword, it would also send you the exact same result.

The expression will be evaluated quickly after the argument list in your script by omitting the curly brackets and the return keyword.

Here is an example:

Let student=function(a)
A+1, yes
Function()
True,no

This behaves similarly like functions. They are defined with curly brackets and a return statement. This is very useful when we want to pass a function as an argument to a function.

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Authors (3)

Joshua Johanan

Joshua Johanan is the author of two books, Building Scalable Apps with Redis and Node.js and Web Developers Reference Guide. Both books deal with some of the details that will be used in this course. He is currently a web developer with over 7 years of experience writing sites and applications in many different languages. These languages include PHP, Python, JavaScript, and C#. Using many languages also means using many frameworks, including Zend Framework, Django, and .Net MVC. You can read his blog at http://ejosh.co/de/ where he posts semi-regularly.

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Talha Khan

Talha Khan is a passionate web developer, JavaScript enthusiast, software consultant, and coffee freak from Pakistan who is currently residing in UAE. He has more than five years of experience in this field. Despite graduating in mathematics and statistics, his love for web technologies pushed him toward the field of web technologies. He is experienced in developing interactive websites and web applications using PHP, MYSQL, and Dot Net Suite along with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript libraries. He has been teaching web development as well and is an active contributor on programming forums such as StackOverflow. Occasionally, he tweets at @alphaprofile. Talha has worked and consulted on various projects for several major brands and companies. Tossdown.com, a leading restaurants and food search engine of Pakistan, is among one of his major achievements. He is also running his own start-up while educating newbies on technology. He is currently working as a software architect for UAE's biggest swimming academy, Hamilton Aquatics.

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Ricardo Zea

Ricardo Zea hails originally from Medelln, Colombia. He is a passionate and seasoned full-stack designer who is now located in Dayton, Ohio, USA. He is always looking for ways to level up his skills and those around him. Constantly wondering how things are made on the Web, how they work, and why, have made Ricardo a very technical designer, allowing him to explain to others the intricacies of design and the technicalities of the Web in ways that are very easy to understand and assimilate. Ricardo has a master's degree in publicity and advertising and has deep passion for understanding human behavior. He also has a fiercely competitive PC gaming hunger. Together, all this has allowed him to switch from the creative side of the brain to the rational side very easily, allowing him to visualize and create technically sound web and mobile designs that are responsive, perform well, and convey the proper message through design. Ricardo is the author of Mastering Responsive Web Design, Packt Publishing. He's also the organizer of the CodePen Dayton meetup group. He's a member of the Dayton web developers and UX Dayton meetup groups. He's also one of the first members of SitePoint's Ambassadors program. He's also the author of the monthly web design and development newletter Level Up!. He was also a technical reviewer for Sass and Compass, Designers Cookbook, and Sass Essentials, all by Packt Publishing. For several years, he was also a Flash and CorelDRAW professor at different universities in his home country, Colombia. Ricardo has 15 years of experience in web design and 20 years of experience in visual and graphic design.

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