Dani Akash S - JavaScript by Example

Dani Akash S

BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI

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First published: August 2017

Production reference: 1260817

ISBN 978-1-78829-396-9

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Dani Akash S is a passionate, self-taught application developer who loves working on the JavaScript stack. He has worked on many JavaScript frameworks, such as React.js, React Native, Angular, Vue, Express, and Sails. He has built many web and mobile applications. In his free time, he loves to explore new technologies and contribute to open source projects on GitHub.

You can find him on his Twitter handle: @DaniAkashS

Loiane Groner has more than 10 years of experience in developing enterprise applications. She has worked at multinational companies, such as IBM, and now works as a business analyst and developer at a financial institution. Her areas of expertise include Java, Sencha technologies (Ext JS), Angular, and hybrid mobile development with Phonegap and Ionic.

She is passionate about technology and has dedicated herself to spreading knowledge in the software development community through her blog ( http://loiane.com ) and as a speaker at IT conferences. She also maintains a training portal, http://loiane.training .

Loiane is also author of Ext JS 4 First Look, Mastering Ext JS (first and second editions), Sencha Architect App Development and Learning JavaScript Structure and Algorithms (first and second editions) and JavaScript Regular Expressions , all published by Packt.

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• Twitter: @loiane
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I dedicate this book to my family members: my dad, Sekar, my mom, Grace Regina, and my brother Amresh, who have all helped me with everything in my life.

JavaScript is a rapidly evolving language with new features being added to it annually. This book is designed to get your hands dirty by building a wide range of applications with JavaScript. This will help you build a solid foundation with JavaScript, which will help you adapt to its new and upcoming features in the future, as well as learn other modern frameworks and libraries.

, Building a ToDo List, starts with a simple DOM manipulation with JavaScript and work with event listeners, which will give you a good idea of how JavaScript works with the HTML in the website. Youll set up the basic development environment and build your first ToDo list app.

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