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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.
FOREWORD xlviiINTRODUCTION xlixCHAPTER 1: WHAT IS JAVASCRIPT? 1CHAPTER 2: JAVASCRIPT IN HTML 13CHAPTER 3: LANGUAGE BASICS 25CHAPTER 4: VARIABLES, SCOPE, AND MEMORY 101CHAPTER 5: BASIC REFERENCE TYPES 125CHAPTER 6: COLLECTION REFERENCE TYPES 167CHAPTER 7: ITERATORS AND GENERATORS 225CHAPTER 8: OBJECTS, CLASSES, AND OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING 251CHAPTER 9: PROXIES AND REFLECT 323CHAPTER 10: FUNCTIONS 349CHAPTER 11: PROMISES AND ASYNC FUNCTIONS 391CHAPTER 12: THE BROWSER OBJECT MODEL 437CHAPTER 13: CLIENT DETECTION 465CHAPTER 14: THE DOCUMENT OBJECT MODEL 491CHAPTER 15: DOM EXTENSIONS 543CHAPTER 16: DOM LEVELS 2 AND 3 563CHAPTER 17: EVENTS 601CHAPTER 18: ANIMATION AND GRAPHICS WITH CANVAS 671CHAPTER 19: SCRIPTING FORMS 707CHAPTER 20: JAVASCRIPT APIS 743CHAPTER 21: ERROR HANDLING AND DEBUGGING 823CHAPTER 22: XML IN JAVASCRIPT 849CHAPTER 23: JSON 861CHAPTER 24: NETWORK REQUESTS AND REMOTE RESOURCES 871CHAPTER 25: CLIENT-SIDE STORAGE 919CHAPTER 26: MODULES 945CHAPTER 27: WORKERS 969CHAPTER 28: BEST PRACTICES 1035APPENDIX A: ES2018 AND ES2019 1067APPENDIX B: STRICT MODE 1087APPENDIX C: JAVASCRIPT LIBRARIES AND FRAMEWORKS 1095APPENDIX D: JAVASCRIPT TOOLS 1101INDEX 1113
