What actually is frontend development?
Modern websites have a high degree of interactivity. Pages are reloaded less and less often, and changes to content occur right on the spot. Software solutions have become so complex that full-fledged development environments (for example, a Hexlet editor), programs like Photoshop, and packages similar to Microsoft Office are already being implemented in browsers. Browser games are a huge industry. Moreover, thanks to hardware support, these games are no worse than what you can play on a regular desktop.
A language that was originally used as a way to add snowflakes to a website has now become a powerful tool in the hands of professionals. To date, JavaScript is the only language that can be executed by browsers.
However, one language is not enough to bring a page to life. The browser should provide a way to manage both the pages and the browser itself. Most of these features are standardized and described in HTML5 specifications. Some of them are:
- Page content manipulation
- Managing appearance
- Reacting to user actions
- Working with cookies
- Browser control (address bar, navigation, history)
- Interaction with the server
- Video playback
- Input/Output. Interacting with file systems and networks
- 2D/3D drawing
From the language's perspective, most of these features look like sort of like global objects that you can interact with in the program. The most basic and key object of this system is the DOM tree.
In this course, we'll learn how to implement js on a website, go through the main ways of modifying a page, get acquainted with polyfills, make our first ajax request, and discover the world of events.
After this course, you'll be able to try your hand at creating simple frontend games (in the practice after the course).
Preparation
This course is dedicated to animating pages in browsers using JavaScript. This course assumes that you've previously studied JS, either in Hexlet or with another service.
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