JavaScript Fundamentals

Course Overview

• Introduction
  • Modern Application Architecture
  • Language Versions and Browser Support
• JavaScript Overview
  • JavaScript Syntax
  • Variables and Types
  • Strings and Template Strings
  • Operators
  • Objects
  • Arrays
  • Conditionals and Loops
  • Truthy and Falsey
  • Functions
  • Scope, var and let
  • Handling Exceptions
• JavaScript in the Browser
  • The script Tag
  • Scripting Best Practices
  • The Window Object
  • Debugging JavaScript
• The DOM
  • What is DOM?
  • Node and NodeList
  • Searching the DOM
  • Navigating the DOM
  • Working with Attributes
  • NodeList vs. Array
  • Modifying the DOM
  • CSS Selectors
• Event Handling
  • DOM Events in the Browser
  • Connecting Event Handlers
  • Event Parameters
  • load vs DOMContentLoaded
  • Event Propagation
  • Event Delegation
• Objects in Depth
  • Object literals
  • Property and Method notation
  • Adding and Removing Members
  • Iterating over Properties
  • Execution Context and “this”
  • Object Destructuring
  • Spread Operator
  • Namespaces
  • Constructor Functions
  • Prototypes and Inheritance
• Built-in JavaScript Objects
  • Date
  • RegExp
  • Error
  • String
  • Number
  • Array
  • Math
• Arrays
  • Array Literals
  • Looping over Arrays
  • Finding Elements
  • Filtering and Mapping
  • Reducing
  • Spread Operator
• Functions
  • Function Declaration vs. Function Expression
  • Hoisting
  • Default Parameters
  • Arguments and Variadic Functions
  • Call and Apply
  • Arrow Functions
  • Rest Operator
  • Closures
• Modularization
  • Data Hiding
  • Privileged Methods
  • IIFEs
  • The Module Pattern
  • ES6 Modules
  • 3rd Party Module Loaders
• AJAX
  • AJAX Examples
  • The XHR Object
  • Handling Responses and Content
  • Promises
  • AJAX Limitations
• Client-side Data Storage
  • localStorage
  • sessionStorage
  • IndexedDB
• Next-Generation Features
  • Transpiling with Babel
  • Class Syntax
  • Property Descriptors
  • Freezing and Sealing Objects
  • Symbols

Prerequisites

Experience in HTML is required and experience in CSS and programming would be beneficial.