Quickly discover solutions to common problems, best practices you can follow, and everything JavaScript has to offer. Using a problem-solution approach, this book takes you from language basics like built-in objects and flow control all the way to advanced optimization techniques, frameworks and Node.js.

With JavaScript Recipes you will learn language fundamentals like types, conversions, execution contexts, expressions, operators, statements, and built-in objects. You'll explore and make the most of your script's host environment and how to create your own JavaScript host using Google's V8 engine. Employ advanced optimization techniques to create scripts that execute as fast, or faster, than native executables.

JavaScript Recipes shows you how to avoid wasting development time and concentrate on developing cutting-edge applications. You'll see how much quicker and efficient it is to develop with JavaScript. Start becominga JavaScript pro with JavaScript Recipes today.

What You'll Learn

Learn JavaScript language fundamentals and what they can do for you
Use JavaScript's powerful features to develop next-generation applications
Explore your script's host environment and extend it with your own objects
Learn how to use Google's V8 Engine to create your own JavaScript environment
Learn advanced optimization techniques
Implement advanced techniques like closures, namespaces, and reflection
How to use Node.js efficiently
Who This Book Is For
JavaScript developers who need to get development tasks accomplished quickly.

Right up-to-date with the latest version of JavaScript Includes recipes for using frameworks and Node.js as well as the main JavaScript recipes Shows how applications can function more efficiently and features different aspects of frameworks such as jQuery

Autorentext
Russ Ferguson is a freelance developer and instructor in the New York City area. His interest in computers goes back to Atari Basic, CompuServe and BBS systems in the mid-1980s. For over 10 years, he has been fortunate to teach at Pratt Institute, where subjects have been as diverse as the student body. Working in New York has given him the opportunity to work with a diverse group of companies whose projects ranged from developing real-time chat/video applications for start-ups to developing and managing content management systems for established Media and Advertising agencies like MTV and DC Comics.
Keith Cirkel is a JavaScript Consultant from London, United Kingdom, specializing in writing open source JavaScript libraries and literature. To find out more about his work, visit http://keithcirkel.co.uk, reach him via GitHub at github.com/keithamus, or Twitter at twitter.com/keithamus.

Klappentext
This comprehensive book is your go-to reference for tackling common and advanced JavaScript tasks. JavaScript is the world's most popular client-side scripting language and is gaining popularity on the server. Using a problem-solution approach, this book takes you from language basics like built-in objects and flow control all the way to advanced optimization techniques, frameworks and Node.js. Quickly discover solutions to common problems, best practices you can follow, and everything JavaScript has to offer.

With JavaScript Recipes you will learn language fundamentals like types, conversions, execution contexts, expressions, operators, statements, and built-in objects. With this book you'll be able to explore and make the most of your script's host environment and how to create your own JavaScript host using Google's V8 engine. Employ advanced optimization techniques to create scripts that execute as fast, or faster, than native executables.

Inhalt

Working with JavaScript Data Types.- 2. Working with Expressions.- 3. Working with Strings.- 4. Working with Numbers and Math.- 5. Working with Bitwise Operations against 32-bit Integers.- 6. Dates and Times.- 7. Working with Arrays.- 8. Working with Arrays in Loops.- 9. Working with Objects.- 10. Working with Sets.- 11. Working with Maps.- 12. Working with Functions.- 13. Working with Generators.- 14. Working with Template Literals.- 15. Working with Symbols.- 16. Working with Proxies.- 17. Working with Classes.- 18. Working with Events.- 19. Debugging and Handling Exceptions.- 20. Working with Regular Expressions.- 21. Working with Asynchronous Control Flow and Promises.- 22. Working with Modules.