JavaScript is currently the main programming language for the development of Web client, also the core of Ajax technology. And the both win of ECMAScript 5 and HTML5 in the battle over the standard made a large number of proprietary implementations and client extension enter into the official specification, also added a lot of new features for JavaScript to adapt to the future development.

As the latest revision of the super best-selling book about JavaScript, Professional JavaScript for Web Developers added 5 chapters of brand new content along with significant supplement and revision to other chapters. As a whole, the new content's length accounts for about a third.

The whole book starts from the various components of JavaScript language implementation, and then discusses numerous new APIs in simple but profound words, also introduces the best development practices related to offline application, maintenance, performance and deployment. In addition, it also prospects the future of the API and ECMAScript Harmony specification in the appendix.

Professional JavaScript for Web Developers is more suitable for the Web application Developers who have certain programming experience to read, or as a university's teaching materials for specialized curriculum.

Table of Contents

  • Chapter 1: What is Javascript? 1
  • Chapter 2: Javascript in Html 13
  • Chapter 3: Language Basics 25
  • Chapter 4: Variables, Scope, and Memory 101
  • Chapter 5: Basic Reference Types 125
  • Chapter 6: Collection Reference Types 167
  • Chapter 7: Iterators and Generators 225
  • Chapter 8: Objects, Classes, and Object-Oriented Programming 251
  • Chapter 9: Proxies and Reflect 323
  • Chapter 10: Functions 349
  • Chapter 11: Promises and Async Functions 391
  • Chapter 12: The Browser Object Model 437
  • Chapter 13: Client Detection 465
  • Chapter 14: The Document Object Model 491
  • Chapter 15: DOM Extensions 543
  • Chapter 16: Dom Levels 2 and 3 563
  • Chapter 17: Events 601
  • Chapter 18: Animation and Graphics with Canvas 671
  • Chapter 19: Scripting Forms 707
  • Chapter 20: Javascript APIs 743
  • Chapter 21: Error Handling and Debugging 823
  • Chapter 22: XML in Javascript 849
  • Chapter 23: JSON 861
  • Chapter 24: Network Requests and Remote Resources 871
  • Chapter 25: Client-Side Storage 919
  • Chapter 26: Modules 945
  • Chapter 27: Workers 969
  • Chapter 28: Best Practices 1035
  • Appendix A: ES2018 and ES2019 1067
  • Appendix B: Strict Mode 1087
  • Appendix C: Javascript Libraries and Frameworks 1095
  • Appendix D: Javascript Tools 1101

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