High Performance JavaScript by Nicholas C. Zakas - ISBN: 9780596802790
Paperback
Do you want to fix performance bottlenecks in your JavaScript code to help your website function better? This book lets you examine the typical code problems that cause JavaScript to run slow. It helps you learn how to identify inefficient structures and patterns, and replace them with better-performing alternatives.

High Performance JavaScript

Build Faster Web Application Interfaces

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  • Paperback

    242 pages

  • Release Date

    13 April 2010

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Summary

If you’re like most developers, you rely heavily on JavaScript to build interactive and quick-responding web applications. The problem is that all of those lines of JavaScript code can slow down your apps. This book reveals techniques and strategies to help you eliminate performance bottlenecks during development. You’ll learn how to improve execution time, downloading, interaction with the DOM, page life cycle, and more. Yahoo! frontend engineer Nicholas C. Zakas and five other JavaScript…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780596802790
ISBN-10:059680279X
Author:Nicholas C. Zakas
Publisher:O'Reilly Media
Imprint:O'Reilly Media
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:242
Release Date:13 April 2010
Weight:410g
Dimensions:165mm x 80mm x 20mm
Series:Build Faster Web Application Interfaces
About The Author

Nicholas C. Zakas

Nicholas C. Zakas is a Web Software Engineer who specializes in user interface design and implementation for Web applications using JavaScript, Dynamic HTML, CSS, XML, and XSLT. He is currently principal front end engineer for the Yahoo! homepage and is a contributor to the Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) library, having written the Cookie Utility, Profiler, and YUI Test. Nicholas is the author of Professional JavaScript for Web Developers and a co-author on Professional Ajax, and has contributed to other books. He has also written several online articles for WebReference, Sitepoint, and the YUI Blog. Nicholas regularly gives talks about Web development, JavaScript, and best practices. He has given talks at companies such as Yahoo!, LinkedIn, Google, and NASA, and conferences such as the Ajax Experience, the Rich Web Experience, and Velocity. Through his writing and speaking, Nicholas seeks to teach others the valuable lessons he�s learned while working on some of the most popular and demanding Web applications in the world. For more information on Nicholas:

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