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Professional JavaScript for Web Developers - Fourth Edition

You're reading from  Professional JavaScript for Web Developers - Fourth Edition

Product type Book
Published in Nov 2019
Publisher Wiley
ISBN-13 9781119366447
Pages 1144 pages
Edition 4th Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Matt Frisbie Matt Frisbie
Profile icon Matt Frisbie

Table of Contents (37) Chapters

COVER
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION 1 What Is JavaScript? 2 JavaScript in HTML 3 Language Basics 4 Variables, Scope, and Memory 5 Basic Reference Types 6 Collection Reference Types 7 Iterators and Generators 8 Objects, Classes, and Object-Oriented Programming 9 Proxies and Reflect 10 Functions 11 Promises and Async Functions 12 The Browser Object Model 13 Client Detection 14 The Document Object Model 15 DOM Extensions 16 DOM Levels 2 and 3 17 Events 18 Animation and Graphics with Canvas 19 Scripting Forms 20 JavaScript APIs 21 Error Handling and Debugging 22 XML in JavaScript 23 JSON 24 Network Requests and Remote Resources 25 Client-Side Storage 26 Modules 27 Workers 28 Best Practices A ES2018 and ES2019 B Strict Mode C JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks D JavaScript Tools INDEX
END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT

WEB STORAGE

Web Storage was first described in the Web Applications 1.0 specification of the Web Hypertext Application Technical Working Group (WHAT-WG). The initial work from this specification eventually became part of HTML5 before being split into its own specification. Its intent is to overcome some of the limitations imposed by cookies when data is needed strictly on the client side, with no need to continuously send data back to the server.

The most modern edition of the Web Storage specification is its second edition. The two primary goals of the Web Storage specification are:

  • To provide a way to store session data outside of cookies.
  • To provide a mechanism for storing large amounts of data that persists across sessions.

The second edition of the Web Storage specification includes definitions for two objects: localStorage, the permanent storage mechanism, and sessionStorage, the session-scoped storage mechanism. Both of these browser storage APIs afford you two different ways of...

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