Frontend Development: The Ultimate Guide

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Frontend development is the process of creating user-interactive components.

User interfaces, buttons, user-entered data, webpages, and user experience (UX) features are all examples of frontend development. User experience is the primary focus of frontend development. As frontend engineers, you build the portions of an application that are directly accessed by end users using relevant coding and design approaches with the goal of making the overall interface elegant, easy to use, fast, and secure, fostering user engagement and interaction. Frontend development is the process of transforming data into a graphical user interface. The essential foundations of frontend web development have always been HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Anyone interested in becoming a frontend developer has a bright future ahead of them. Increased Internet usage, particularly on mobile devices, necessitates more user interfaces, resulting in more frontend developer jobs. The role of frontend web developers is more crucial than it has ever been.

Key Features:

• A step-by-step approach to problem-solving and skill development

• A quick run-through of the basic concepts in the form of a “Crash Course”

• An advanced, hands-on core concepts with a focus on real-world problems

• An industy-level coding paradigm, practice-oriented explanatory approach

• A special emphasis on writing clean and optimized code, with additional chapters focused on coding methodology

Author(s): Sufyan bin Uzayr
Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2022

Language: English
Pages: 177
City: Boca Raton

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Author
Chapter 1 Crash Course in Frontend Development
In This Chapter
How Does the Web Work
What Is the Internet and How It Works
Intranets and Extranets
How a Website Works
TCP/IP
How Does TCP/IP Work?
Layers of the TCP/IP Model
Advantages of Using the TCP/IP Model
Disadvantages of Using the TCP/IP Model
How Are TCP/IP and IP Different?
What Are Packets? How Are They Used to Transfer Data?
History of Packets
Why Use Packets?
Client-Server Model
How Does the Client-Server Model Work?
Steps for Interaction between Client and Server
Advantages of the Client-Server Model
Downside of the Client-Server Model
IP Address
IPv4 and IPv
Features of IPv
Features of IPv
DNS Servers
Steps for Lookup in a DNS
Difference between Web Page/Website/WebServer/Web Browser and Search Engine
HTTP and HTTPS
What Is HTTP?
Advantages of HTTP
Disadvantages of HTTP
What Is HTTPS?
Advantages of HTTPS
HTTPS’s Limitations
Introduction to Web Development
What Is Frontend Development?
Advantages of Frontend Development
Disadvantages of Frontend Development
Major Concepts
HTML
Advantages
Disadvantages
CSS
CSS Frameworks
Advantages
Disadvantages
DOM: The Web Page Structure
JavaScript
Pros
Cons
Syntax and Code Basics
HTML
Attributes
Comments
CSS
Block Declaration in CSS
Adding Comments in CSS
JavaScript
JavaScript Fixed Values
JavaScript Variable Values
JavaScript Operators
JavaScript Expressions
JavaScript Keywords
Comments in JavaScript
Identifiers/Names
JavaScript Is a Case-Sensitive Language
Chapter Summary
Chapter 2 HTML
In This Chapter
Elements
Root
Metadata
Sectioning Root
Content Sectioning
Text Content
Inline Text Semantics
Image and Multimedia
Content
SVG and MathML
Scripting
Demarcating Edits
Table Content
Forms
Interactive HTML Elements
Web Components
Deprecated Elements
Design
HTML Layout Elements
HTML Layout Techniques
HTML Responsive Web Design
Semantic Elements
Creating a Website Structure
Non-semantic Elements
Attributes
Chapter Summary
Chapter 3 CSS
In This Chapter
What Is CSS?
What Is New in CSS3?
CSS3 Selectors
Pseudo-Classes
CSS3 Colors
RGBA
HSL and HSLA
Opacity
Rounded Corners: Border-Radius
Drop Shadows
Text Shadow
Linear Gradients
Radial Gradients
Images for the Background
CSS Preprocessors
Sass
Less
Stylus
PostCSS
CSS Frameworks
Bootstrap
Advantages of Bootstrap
Disadvantages of Bootstrap
Foundation
Features
Tailwind CSS
Features
Chapter Summary
Chapter 4 JavaScript and jQuery
In This Chapter
What Is JavaScript?
How Does JavaScript Work?
JavaScript
Client-side
Advantages
Disadvantages
ECMAScript 6
Varieties of var
Let variables
What Are ES6 Modules?
Defining Classes
Class Announcements
Strict Mode
Builder
Third-Party JavaScript
Third-Party JavaScript
Usage
Chapter Summary
Chapter 5 Frontend Development and JavaScript
In This Chapter
Uses of JavaScript in Frontend Development
Interactivity
AJAX
Creating Web Applications
Creating Mobile Apps
Building Web Servers
Web Development
Presentations
Cross-Browser Compatibility
Plugins
Frameworks and Libraries
jQuery Plugins in Frontend Development
Creating a jQuery Plugin
Features of a jQuery Plugin
Need for a jQuery Plugin
React
Basic Use
Components
Visible DOM
Lifecycle Methods
React Hook
Some Rules
Characteristics
Angular
Why Do We Need Angular?
Why Use Angular
Features
Chapter Summary
Chapter 6 Code Optimization
In This Chapter
What Is Code Optimization?
Goals of Code Optimization
Categories of Optimization
Code Optimization Techniques
Chapter Summary
Appraisal
Bibliography
Index