Hands-on JavaScript for Python Developers: Leverage your Python knowledge to quickly learn JavaScript and advance your web development career - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

Build robust full-stack web applications using two of the world’s most popular programming languages Python and JavaScript

Key Features

• Discover similarities and differences between JavaScript and Python coding conventions
• Explore frontend web concepts, UI/UX techniques, and JavaScript frameworks to enhance your web development skills
• Put your JS knowledge into practice by developing a full-stack web app with React and Express

Book Description

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.

Starting with the basics of JavaScript, you’ll cover its syntax, its use in the browser, and its frameworks and libraries. From working with user interactions and ingesting data from APIs through to creating APIs with Node.js, this book will help you get up and running with JavaScript using hands-on exercises, code snippets, and detailed descriptions of JavaScript implementation and benefits. To understand the use of JavaScript in the backend, you’ll explore Node.js and discover how it communicates with databases. As you advance, you’ll get to grips with creating your own RESTful APIs and connecting the frontend and backend for holistic full-stack development knowledge.

By the end of this Python JavaScript book, you’ll have the knowledge you need to write full-fledged web applications from start to finish. You’ll have also gained hands-on experience of working through several projects, which will help you advance in your career as a JavaScript developer.

What you will learn

• Discover the differences between Python and JavaScript at both the syntactical and semantical level
• Become well versed in implementing JavaScript in the frontend as well as the backend
• Understand the separation of concerns while using Python programming for server-side development
• Get to grips with frontend web development tasks, including UI/UX design, form validation, animations, and much more
• Create modern interaction interfaces for your Python web application
• Explore modern web technologies and libraries for building full-stack applications

Who this book is for

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.

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