Web Developers Reference Guide

A one-stop guide to the essentials of web development including popular frameworks such as jQuery Bootstrap AngularJS and Node.js About This Book • Understand the essential elements of HTML CSS and JavaScript including how and when to use them • Walk through three of the best and most popular web development frameworks – jQuery Bootstrap and AngularJS • References for any function you will need in your day-to-day web development Who This Book Is For This book is perfect for beginners but more advanced web developers will also benefit. Laid out so you can refer to as much or as little as you need to with this book you can exhaustively explore essential concepts for modern web developers. What You Will Learn • Explore detailed explanations of all the major HTML elements and attributes illustrated with examples • Take a deep dive into CSS properties and functions and master their usage • Find clear concise descriptions of JavaScript syntax and expressions • Recognize various JavaScript design patterns and learn the basics of JavaScript object-orientated programming • Implement the latest ECMAScript 6 for client-side scripting in your web applications • Discover new ways to develop your websites front end quickly and easily using Bootstrap • Write JavaScript extensibly using jQuery-JavaScripts feature-rich library • Delve into the key Node.js modules used in JavaScript server-side programming • Access AngularJS s important modules controllers directives and services quickly In Detail This comprehensive reference guide takes you through each topic in web development and highlights the most popular and important elements of each area. Starting with HTML you will learn key elements and attributes and how they relate to each other. Next you will explore CSS pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements followed by CSS properties and functions. This will introduce you to many powerful and new selectors. You will then move on to JavaScript. This section will not just introduce functions but will provide you with an entire reference for the language and paradigms. You will discover more about three of the most popular frameworks today―Bootstrap which builds on CSS jQuery which builds on JavaScript and AngularJS which also builds on JavaScript. Finally you will take a walk-through Node.js which is a server-side framework that allows you to write programs in JavaScript. Style and approach This book is an easy-to-follow comprehensive reference guide. Each topic function or element is listed methodically along with parameters return values and descriptions. Examples are also included to help you put the concepts to use quickly in the real world.