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JavaScript Beyond the Basics: 250 Advanced Exercises for Developers: Tackle Complex JavaScript Problems and Write Better Code

Laurence Lars Svekis

JavaScript Beyond the Basics: 250 Advanced Exercises for Developers is a comprehensive guide designed for seasoned developers who want to push their JavaScript skills to new heights. This book moves past the fundamentals and challenges you with 250 hands-on exercises that delve into the advanced aspects of modern JavaScript programming. With practical examples and in-depth explanations, you will explore complex topics that are essential for building robust, efficient, and maintainable applications.

Throughout this book, you'll master advanced functions and closures, learning how to harness the power of higher-order functions, currying, memoization, and private scopes. You will also conquer asynchronous programming by working with callbacks, Promises, async/await, and even async generators. These exercises are designed to help you manage concurrency, handle errors gracefully, and optimize performance in real-world scenarios.

Modern JavaScript features introduced in ES6 and beyond are also a major focus. You'll become proficient in using destructuring, spread and rest operators, template literals, arrow functions, and classes with inheritance, getters, setters, and static methods. Additionally, you will explore iterators, generators, Symbols, and Proxies, giving you the tools to write more expressive and cleaner code.

For developers interested in object-oriented programming and design patterns, this book covers essential patterns like Singleton, Factory, Observer, Mediator, Strategy, Decorator, Command, Adapter, Facade, Iterator, Composite, Mixin, Bridge, Template Method, State, Chain of Responsibility, Flyweight, Proxy, and more. These patterns provide reusable solutions to common software design problems and empower you to architect your applications with scalability and maintainability in mind.

The book also dives into advanced data structures and algorithms. You'll implement linked lists, trees, graphs, and explore sorting, searching, dynamic programming, backtracking, and other algorithmic strategies. These exercises sharpen your problem-solving skills and prepare you to tackle complex computational challenges efficiently.

Interactive exercises in DOM manipulation and browser APIs guide you through building rich, dynamic web applications. From advanced element selection and event handling to working with Service Workers, the Canvas API, WebSockets, and real-time communication protocols like Server-Sent Events, WebRTC, and long polling, you will gain practical experience in creating responsive, modern web interfaces.

In addition, you will enhance your debugging, error handling, and performance optimization techniques. Learn to use advanced console methods, custom assertions, and testing utilities; measure execution times with high-resolution timers; and employ best practices for writing resilient code that performs well under pressure.

Organized into clear categories, each set of exercises builds upon the previous ones, guiding you through a structured learning journey. You'll also explore advanced module systems, tooling, and miscellaneous techniques such as lazy evaluation, custom iterators, fluent APIs, and mini-framework design to further refine your coding prowess.

JavaScript Beyond the Basics isn't just a collection of exercises-it's a transformative journey that will enhance your problem-solving abilities, empower you to write cleaner and more efficient code, and prepare you to build next-generation web applications. Whether you're a professional developer or an advanced enthusiast, this book will equip you with the skills and mindset needed to excel in today's competitive tech landscape.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publish Date: Mar 3rd, 2025
  • Pages: 224
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.47in - 0.67lb
  • EAN: 9798312787290
  • Categories: Languages - JavaScript

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