Preface
The aim of this book is to introduce you to programming using the JavaScript language, eventually helping you to develop into a JavaScript ninja.
This is an exciting time to be learning JavaScript, having finally outgrown its early reputation as a basic scripting language used to produce cringeworthy effects on web pages. Today, JavaScript is used to produce professional and powerful web applications. Modern browsers are now capable of running JavaScript code at lightning speed, and Node.js has helped to revolutionize it by facilitating its use in other environments. This has led to a much more professional and structured approach to building JavaScript applications, where it is now considered a full-fledged programming language. In short, ...
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