Contents

• Preface

• Introduction

  • Who This Book Is For
  • What This Book is Not
  • Overview of Material
  • Conventions
  • Further Readings

• Part I - Introduction to the Web

• Client-Server Communication

  • Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)
  • Hypertext Transfer Protocol
  • Client-Server Separation

• Web Standards

  • Background
  • Separation of Concerns
  • Standards Organizations

• Part II - HTML

• Introduction to HTML

  • Structure & Syntax
  • The Head and Document Metadata

• Page Rendering

  • Loading Assets & The Critical Rendering Path

• HTML Elements

  • Using Semantic Elements
  • Structural Elements
  • Interactive Elements

• Forms

  • Accepting User Input
  • The form Element
  • Inputs
  • Client-Side Input Validation

• Images & SVG

  • Images on the Web
  • The img Element
  • Responsive Images
  • SVG

• Part III - CSS

• Introduction to CSS

• Selectors & Rulesets

  • Simple Selectors
  • Combinators
  • Pseudo-classes
  • Pseudo-elements
  • Selector groups
  • Application of style rules

• The Cascade & Inheritance

  • Importance
  • Specificity
  • Source Order
  • Inheritance

• CSS Units

  • Length
  • Color
  • calc

• Intro to Layout

  • The Box Model
  • Flow Context: block and inline Elements
  • Position

• Responsive Layout with Flexbox & Grid

  • Flexbox
  • Grid
  • Media Queries

• Part IV - JavaScript

• Introduction to JavaScript

  • History & Standards
  • Conventions
  • Running JavaScript

• Grammar & Syntax

  • Characters
  • Comments
  • Expressions
  • Operators
  • Statements
  • Semicolons

• Data Types

  • typeof Operator
  • Numbers
  • Strings
  • Objects
  • null & undefined
  • Primitive Wrapper Objects

• Type Coercion

  • Truthiness
  • Comparison & Equality

• Functions

  • Function Declarations
  • Function Expressions
  • Arrow Functions

• Scopes, Closures, & Variables

  • Lexical Scopes
  • Closure
  • Variables

• Error Handling

  • Syntax Errors
  • Runtime Exceptions
  • Error Objects
  • Standard Runtime Error Types
  • Error Avoidance

• Asynchrony

  • Execution Contexts & The Stack
  • Concurrency vs. Parallelism
  • The Event Loop
  • Callback Function Pattern
  • Promises
  • Async Functions

• this & Execution Contexts

  • Execution Contexts
  • Default Binding
  • Implicit Binding
  • Explicit Binding

• Flexible Objects

  • Using Object Literals
  • Shorthand Property Names
  • Accessor Properties: Getters and Setters
  • Property Descriptors

• Prototypal Patterns

  • The Prototype Chain
  • Implementing Classes with Prototypes

• Data Collections & Iteration

  • Built-In Collection Objects
  • Iterables
  • Functional Iteration
  • Normal Objects as Collections

• Transferring Data with JSON

• Modules & Bundling

• Part V - Web Applications

• The DOM API – JavaScript in the Browser

  • DOM Manipulation
  • Handling Events

• Build Tools

• Modern Browser APIs