Building Front-End Web Apps with Plain JavaScript

Learn how to build front-end web applications with plain JavaScript, without using any frameworks or libraries. Covers fundamental object-oriented programming concepts.

Introduction

This book shows how to build front-end web applications with plain JavaScript, not using any (third-party) framework or library. The focus of the book are general information management concepts and techniques concerning integrity constraints and data validation, enumerations and enumeration attributes, unidirectional and bidirectional associations between object types, and subtyping and inheritance in class hierarchies.

Highlights

• Comes with the complete JavaScript code of 6 example apps, having 8,658 lines of code
• Available as an open-access online book and as an e-book (PDF)
• Covers fundamental object-oriented programming concepts in JavaScript

Recommendation

The book can be used by both experienced software developers coming from classical object-oriented (OO) programming and by JavaScript developers. For the former group, the book provides an opportunity to learn JavaScript, while for both groups, it demonstrates how to implement basic OO concepts with plain JavaScript and build complete front-end web apps without the constraints of frameworks.