Pragmatic Guide to JavaScript

JavaScript is everywhere. It's a key component of today's Web-a powerful, dynamic language with a rich Ecosystem of professional grade development tools, infrastructure, frameworks, and toolkits. This book will get you up to speed quickly and painlessly with the 35 key JavaScript tasks you need to know.

The task-oriented two-page spreads get you up and running fast. The left pages explain the underlying implementation for each task, and the right pages contain snippets for that task, along with cross-references to related tasks.

You'll learn essential; JavaScript tasks in a framework-agnostic way. Learn how to manipulate the DOM and CSS, and how to use event handling and timers. You'll discover JavaScript tricks for user interface functionality tooltips, lightboxes, image processing, infinite scrolling, and more. You'll work with forms for receiving and validating input and explore the client-server relationship with cookies, JSON, and Ajax, as well as mashups with Twitter, Flickr, and geo-related APIs. We round it of with a clear sheet that gives you JavaScript at a glance.

Use this pragmatic Guide to get started creating your own killer web applications, quickly and professionally.