JavaScript is no longer to be feared or loathed - the world's most
popular and ubiquitous language has evolved into a respectable language.
Whether you're writing frontend applications or server side code, the
phenomenal features from ES6 and beyond - like the rest operator,
generators, destructuring, object literals, arrow functions, modern
classes, promises, async, and metaprogramming capabilities - will get
you excited and eager to program with JavaScript. You've found the right
book to get started quickly and dive deep into the essence of modern
JavaScript. Learn practical tips to apply the elegant parts of the
language and the gotchas to avoid.
JavaScript is a black swan that no one, including the author of the
language, thought would become a popular and ubiquitous language. Not
long ago, it was the most hated and feared language you could use to
program the web. JavaScript ES6 and beyond has gone through a
significant makeover. Troublesome features have been replaced with
better, elegant, more reliable alternatives. This book includes many
practical examples and exercises to help you learn in depth. It will not
bore you with idiosyncrasies and arcane details intended for bad
interview questions. Instead, it takes you into key features that you
can readily use in your day-to-day projects.
Whether you program the frontend or the server side, you can now write
concise, elegant, and expressive JavaScript with newer features like
default parameters, template literals, rest and spread operators,
destructuring, arrow functions, and generators. Take it up a notch with
features like infinite series, promises, async, and metaprogramming to
create flexible, powerful, and extensible libraries. While the evolved
features of the language will draw you in, the hundreds of examples in
this book will pin the concepts down, for you to use on your projects.
Take command of modern JavaScript and unlock your potential to create
powerful applications.
What You Need:
To try out the examples in the book you will need a computer with
Node.js, a text editor, and a browser like Chrome installed in it.
