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Java: Book Review

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide

Activate your web pages

This book has delivered exactly what I was hoping for, an in-depth look into modern day JavaScript.

I rarely use JavaScript nowadays in my day to day job. I have been lucky to avoid the messy browser applications it is usually a part of the past few years. That was my primary reason for buying the book. Although I may not like it, JavaScript is here to stay, and I need to keep current with it.

The book is broken into 4 parts. Core JavaScript, Client-Side JavaScript, Core JavaScript Reference, and Client-Side JavaScript Reference.

The book has chapters on Lexical Structure, Expressions and Operators, Statements, Objects, Arrays, Functions, Classes and Modules, Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions, JavaScript Subsets and Extensions, Server-Side JavaScript, JavaScript in Web Browsers, The Window Object, Scripting Documents, Scripting CSS, Handling Events, Scripted HTTP, The jQuery Library, Client-Side Storage, Scripted Media and Graphics, HTML5 APIs, and then continues on with the Core JavaScript Reference and the Client-Side JavaScript Reference.

The downloadable code is very well organized and usable. All the code in the book, and there is a ton of it, is available.

The book is very well written and makes for a really good read as well as a great reference. It is in depth and very thorough.

All in all I think this a great book. It will be on my desk for the next few years until I need to replace it with the 8th or 9th version.

If you are a web developer, you need this book by your side.

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide: Activate Your Web Pages (Definitive Guides)