Become a confident JavaScript pro by unraveling the most challenging aspects of the language. With easy-to-understand explanations and code examples, you’ll gain a deeper and solid understanding of JavaScript’s most complex features.
Understand Aspects of JavaScript that Most Don’t
With the continued popularity of JavaScript frontend frameworks like React, Vue, and Angular, having a solid understanding of the most complicated features of JavaScript is more important than ever. And with JavaScript being a dynamically typed language, it has some unique quirks. Some of its core features can be confusing or hard to understand, for beginners and intermediate developers alike.
After answering thousands of questions from hundreds of JavaScript developers, Advanced JavaScript Unleashed book author, Yousaf Khan, realized that the same few topics kept coming up over and over. These question were alway realted to the fundamental aspects of JavaScript that developers were missing! And no other resource was sifficiently providing an in-depth explanation.
This book “Advanced JavaScript Unleashed” aims to make it attainable for anyone to develop a deeper understanding of JavaScript by providing easy-to-understand explanations of all the important and hard-to-understand topics that keep many devs stagnant, producing bugs and unmaintainable code.
Advanced JavaScript Unleashed aims to make it attainable for anyone to develop a deeper understanding of the JavaScript language by providing clear and concise explanations of core topics. The book will cover closures, coercion, asynchronous nature of Javascript, hoisting, and event loop. But also dive into advanced topics like promises, async-await, and more.
With multiple popular frontend JavaScript frameworks in use today (React, Vue, and Angular,) having a solid understanding of JavaScript makes it easy to learn and work with these frameworks.The carefully curated knowledge presented in this book will help you develop a solid understanding of the JavaScript language, and in turn will make it easy for you to work with different JavaScript frameworks.
What’s in the book
Advanced JavaScript Unleashed is for beginner and intermediate developers alike, who want to elevate their JavaScript skills and become senior engineers by gaining a deeper understanding of the core topics of the language.
- How new features are added to JavaScript
- What are prototypes and how prototypal inheritance works
- What is hoisting?
- Deep dive into coercion
- How closures work in JavaScript
- How “this” keyword works
- How asynchronous JavaScript works (event loops, promises, etc.)
- What are iterators and generators?
- How to debug JavaScript code
- What are symbols and why are they needed?
