Async JavaScript
eBook - ePub

Async JavaScript

Build More Responsive Apps with Less Code

  1. 104 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Async JavaScript

Build More Responsive Apps with Less Code

About this book

With Async JavaScript, you'll develop a deeper understanding of the JavaScript language. You'll start with a ground-up primer on the JavaScript event model—key to avoiding many of the most common mistakes JavaScripters make. From there you'll see tools and design patterns for turning that conceptual understanding into practical code.

The concepts in the book are illustrated with runnable examples drawn from both the browser and the Node.js server framework, incorporating complementary libraries including jQuery, Backbone.js, and Async.js. You'll learn how to create dynamic web pages and highly concurrent servers by mastering the art of distributing events to where they need to be handled, rather than nesting callbacks within callbacks within callbacks.

Async JavaScript will get you up and running with real web development quickly. By the time you've finished the Promises chapter, you'll be parallelizing Ajax requests or running animations in sequence. By the end of the book, you'll even know how to leverage Web Workers and AMD for JavaScript applications with cutting-edge performance. Most importantly, you'll have the knowledge you need to write async code with confidence.

What You Need:

Basic knowledge of JavaScript is recommended. If you feel that you're not up to speed, see the "Resources for Learning JavaScript" section in the preface.

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Table of contents

  1. Async JavaScript
  2. For the Best Reading Experience...
  3. ​
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Early Praise for Async JavaScript
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1: Understanding JavaScript Events
  9. Chapter 2: Distributing Events
  10. Chapter 3: Promises and Deferreds
  11. Chapter 4: Flow Control with Async.js
  12. Chapter 5: Multithreading with Workers
  13. Chapter 6: Async Script Loading
  14. Appendix 1: Tools for Taming JavaScript