This is the code repository for Hands-on JavaScript for Python Developers, published by Packt.
Leverage your Python knowledge to quickly learn JavaScript and advance your web development career
Knowledge of Python is a great foundation for learning other languages. This book will help you advance in your software engineering career by leveraging your Python programming skills to learn JavaScript and apply its unique features not only for frontend web development but also for streamlining work on the backend.
This book covers the following exciting features:
- Become well-versed with the implementation of JavaScript at both the front-end and back-end
- Understand separation of concerns while using Python programming for server-side development
- Differentiate between Pythonic and JavaScript coding conventions
- Understand front-end tasks, including UX and UI design, form validation, front-end animations, and more
- Create modern interaction interfaces for a web application
If you feel this book is for you, get your copy today!
All of the code is organized into folders. For example, Chapter02.
The code will look like the following:
document.getElementById('submit').onclick = event => {
event.preventDefault()
fetch('/data')
.then(res => res.text())
.then(response => alert(response))
.catch(err => console.error(err))
}
Following is what you need for this book:
This book is for experienced Python programmers who are looking to expand their knowledge of frontend and backend web development with JavaScript. An understanding of data types, functions, and scope is necessary to get to grips with the concepts covered in the book. Familiarity with HTML and CSS, Document Object Model (DOM), and Flask or Django will help you to learn JavaScript easily.
With the following software and hardware list you can run all code files present in the book (Chapter 1-19).
| Chapter | Software required | OS required |
|---|---|---|
| 1-19 | Visual Studio Code | Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any) |
| 1-19 | Google Chrome | Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any) |
| 1-19 | Node.js and NPM | Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any) |
We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. Click here to download it.
Chicago-born, Iowa-raised, Los Angeles-seasoned, and now New York City-flavored, Sonyl Nagale started his career as a graphic designer focusing on web, which led down the slippery slope to becoming a full-stack technologist instead. With an eye toward the client use case and conversation with the creative side, he prides himself on taking a holistic approach to software engineering. Having worked at start-ups and global media companies using a variety of languages and frameworks, he likes solving new and novel challenges. Passionate about education, he's always excited to have great teachable moments complete with laughter and seeing the “Aha!” moments in students’ eyes.