Chapter 2. Building the page at runtime
This chapter covers
- Steps in the lifecycle of a web application
- Processing HTML code to produce a web page
- Order of executing JavaScript code
- Achieving interactivity with events
- The event loop
Our exploration of JavaScript is performed in the context of client-side web applications and the browser as the engine that executes JavaScript code. In order to have a strong base from which to continue exploring JavaScript as a language and the browser as a platform, first we have to understand the complete web application lifecycle, and especially how our JavaScript code fits into this lifecycle.
In this chapter, we’ll thoroughly explore the lifecycle of client-side web applications from the moment the page ...
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