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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

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Web Programming

Author (1):

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

UNIT TESTING

Most JavaScript libraries use some form of unit testing on their own code, and some publish the unit-testing framework for others to use. Test-driven development (TDD) is a software-development process built around the use of unit testing.

Mocha

One of the most popular unit test frameworks available, Mocha offers excellent configurability and extensibility when developing your unit tests. Tests are quite flexible, and their serial execution means accurate reporting and easier debugging.

Website: https://mochajs.org/

Jasmine

Although it is on the older side of the spectrum of unit test frameworks, Jasmine is still extremely popular. It comes with everything you need out of the box—meaning no external dependencies—and its syntax is simple and easy to read.

Website: https://jasmine.github.io/

qUnit

qUnit is the unit-testing framework designed for use with jQuery. Indeed, jQuery itself uses qUnit for all of its testing. Despite this, qUnit has no dependency...

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Authors (1)

Matt Frisbie

Matt Frisbie has worked in web development for over a decade. During that time, he's been a startup co-founder, an engineer at a Big Four tech company, and the first engineer at a Y Combinator startup that would eventually become a billion-dollar company. As a Google software engineer, Matt worked on both the AdSense and Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) platforms; his code contributions run on most of the planet's web browsing devices. Prior to this, Matt was the first engineer at DoorDash, where he helped lay the foundation for a company that has become the leader in online food delivery. Matt has written two books and recorded two video series for O'Reilly and Packt, speaks at frontend meetups and web casts, and is a level 1 sommelier. He majored in Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Matt's Twitter handle is @mattfriz.

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