JavaScript Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

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.

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 becoming a JavaScript pro with JavaScript Recipes today.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Working with JavaScript Datatypes
Chapter 2: Working with Expressions
Chapter 3: Working with Strings
Chapter 4: Working with Numbers and Math
Chapter 5: Working with Bitwise Operations Against 32-Bit Integers
Chapter 6: Dates and Times
Chapter 7: Working with Arrays
Chapter 8: Working with Arrays in Loops
Chapter 9: Working with Objects
Chapter 10: Working with Sets
Chapter 11: Working with Maps
Chapter 12: Working with Functions
Chapter 13: Working with Generators
Chapter 14: Working with Template Literals
Chapter 15: Working with Symbols
Chapter 16: Working with Proxies
Chapter 17: Working with Classes
Chapter 18: Working with Events
Chapter 19: Debugging and Handling Exceptions
Chapter 20: Working with Regular Expressions
Chapter 21: Working with Asynchronous Control Flow and Promises