Why reinvent the wheel every time you run into a problem with JavaScript? This cookbook is chock-full of code recipes that address common programming tasks, as well as techniques for building web apps that work in any browser. Just copy and paste the code samples into your project—you’ll get the job done faster and learn more about JavaScript in the process.
You'll also learn how to take advantage of the latest features in ECMAScript 6, as well as popular JavaScript libraries like node and underscore, and MVC frameworks including Angular, Ember, and Backbone.
Create interactive web and desktop applications
Use JavaScript with Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and the canvas element
Write server-side JavaScript with node.js
Communicate between client and server using sockets
Learn to use popular MVC frameworks Angular, Ember, and Backbone
Shelley Powers has been working with, and writing about, web technologies--from the first release of JavaScript to the latest graphics and design tools--for more than 12 years. Her recent O'Reilly books have covered the semantic web, Ajax, JavaScript, and web graphics. She's an avid amateur photographer and web development aficionado, who enjoys applying her latest experiments on her many web sites.