JavaScript: Moving to ES2015 by Narayan Prusty

Key FeaturesThis course offers an experts eye on the latest ES6 features and how these advanced tasks fit together in JavaScript as a wholeDiscover robust JavaScript implementations of classic and advanced design patternsLearn about modern web architectures and build real-world apps on top of themBook DescriptionJavaScript is a high-level, dynamic, untyped, lightweight, and interpreted programming language. Mastering modern JavaScript techniques and the toolchain are essential to develop web-scale applications. This Learning Path will upgrade your skills to ES2015, and you will get to introduce yourself to popular frameworks like React and Angular 2.In the first module, you will get familiar with the language constructs and how to make code easy to organize. You will gain a concrete understanding of variable scoping, loops, and best practices on using types and data structures, as well as the coding style and recommended code organization patterns in JavaScript. By the end of the module, you will understand how reactive JavaScript is going to be the new paradigm.Over the course of the next module, you will explore how design patterns can help you improve and organize your JavaScript code. Youll get to grips with creational, structural, and behavioral patterns and get a deeper look at patterns used in functional programming, as well as model view patterns and patterns to build web applications. By the end of the module, youll be saved of a lot of trial and error and developmental headaches, and you will be on the road to becoming a JavaScript expert.In the last leg of this course, you will shift your focus to network programming concepts as you build a real-time web application with websockets. Along the way, youll explore how the power of JavaScript can be increased multi-fold with high performance techniques. By the end of this module, youll be a skilled JavaScript developer with a solid knowledge of the latest JavaScript techniques, tools, and architecture to build modern web apps.This Learning Path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer in one complete, curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products:Mastering JavaScript by Ved AntaniMastering JavaScript Design Patterns, Second Edition by Simon TimmsModern JavaScript Applications by Narayan PrustyWhat you will learnGet a run through of the basic language constructs, Functions, and Closures of JavaScriptCode using the powerful object-oriented feature in JavaScriptMaster DOM manipulation, cross-browser strategies, and ES6Harness the power of patterns for tasks ranging from application building to code testingIdentify the best use cases for microservicesGain expertise in responsive and dynamic website designEnable real-time communications between client-client and client-server/server-clientWrite complete applications using functional reactive programmingAbout the AuthorVed Antani is an AVP (engineering) at Myntra. Before Myntra, he worked with Electronic Arts, NetApp, and Oracle. Ved is passionate about programming and has been programming in JavaScript since 2005. He has extensive experience in building scalable systems and mobile applications. Ved is a minimalist, a father, and an avid tea drinker.Simon Timms is a developer who loves writing code. He writes in a variety of languages and using a number of tools. Mostly, he develops web applications with .NET back ends. Simon is very interested in visualizations and cloud computing. A background in builds and system administration keeps him on the straight and narrow when it comes to DevOps.He is the author of Social Data Visualization with HTML5 and JavaScript, Packt Publishing. He blogs on blog.simontimms.com, and he is also a frequent contributor to the Western Devs (http://westerndevs.com), which is a loose collaboration of developers mostly located in Canada. Twice a week, he participates in a videocast called The ASP.NET Monsters about the future of ASP.NET, which is one of the most popular series on Microsofts Channel 9 video service (https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/aspnetmonsters).Simon is the president of the Calgary .Net user group and a member of half a dozen other groups. He speaks on a variety of topics from DevOps to how the telephone system works. He works as a principal software developer for Clear-Measure located in Austin, Texas.Narayan Prusty is a full-stack developer. He works as a consultant for various start-ups around the world. He has worked on various technologies and programming languages but is very passionate about JavaScript, WordPress, Ethereum, Solr, React, Cordova, MongoDB, and AWS.Apart from consulting for various start-ups, he also runs a blog titled QNimate (http://qnimate.com) and a video-tutorial site titled QScutter (http://qscutter.com), where he shares information about a lot of the technologies he works on. Previously, he wrote a book titled Learning ECMAScript 6, which was published by Packt Publishing. You can reach Narayan on LinkedIn (https://in.linkedin.com/in/narayanprusty).Table of ContentsJavaScript PrimerFunctions, Closures, and ModulesData Structures and ManipulationObject-Oriented JavaScriptJavaScript PatternsTesting and DebuggingECMAScript 6DOM Manipulation and EventsServer-Side JavaScriptDesigning for Fun and ProfitOrganizing CodeCreational PatternsStructural PatternsBehavioral PatternsFunctional ProgrammingReactive ProgrammingApplication PatternsWeb PatternsMessaging PatternsMicroservicesPatterns for TestingAdvanced PatternsECMAScript-2015/2016 Solutions TodayBreaking into Microservices ArchitectureBuilding a Coupon SiteCommunication between Browsers in Real TimeBuilding a ChatrouletteBidirectional Communication in Real TimeBuilding a Live Score SiteFunctional Reactive ProgrammingBuilding an Advanced Profile Search WidgetNew Features of Bootstrap 4Building User Interfaces Using ReactBuilding an RSS Reader Using React and FluxNew Features of Angular 2Building a Search Engine Template Using AngularJS 2Securing and Scaling Node.js ApplicationsBibliography