Table of Contents

FOREWORD xlvii

INTRODUCTION xlix

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

INDEX 1113

About the Author

Matt Frisbie is the author of Angular 2 Cookbook and AngularJS Web Application Development Cookbook as well as several video series. A software engineer at Google, he is actively involved in the JavaScript community and often does open webcasts as well as giving talks at meetups.