EJS - JavaScript Templates. Are you ever faced with a mess of HTML string concatenations like this?
Var html = "<h1>"+data.title+"</h1>" html += "<ul>" for(var i=0; i<data.supplies.length; i++) { html += "<li><a href='supplies/"+data.supplies[i]+"'>" html += data.supplies[i]+"</a></li>" } html += "</ul>" If you're a web developer, the answer is probably yes. Beyond being ugly, the structure of your HTML is lost in the JavaScript. Adding to this layout would be difficult. How can we clean it up? In this tutorial, we'll show you how to improve the above code that produces a list of supply links.
EJS is a JavaScript templating library. This tutorial walks you through: Include EJS Before we put on the rubber gloves and get to the heavy scrubbing, lets get set up a bit. Your page needs to include EJS so your JavaScript can use it. Next add EJS to your HTML like this: Create a Template The first step towards cleaner code is separating your presentation markup (HTML) from your application logic (JavaScript). View Helpers. Callbacks, Promises, and Coroutines (oh my!): Asynchronous Programm... A Freelance Web Designer's Survival Manual. Designing With Grid-Based Approach. Advertisement The main idea behind grid-based designs is a solid visual and structural balance of web-sites you can create with them.
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Seems like everyone wants to get in on the JS action and with good reason; it's a great language to know if you're interested in exciting career opportunities. It's also pretty fun to play with. With JavaScript's increased popularity, the number of books, blogs and tutorials about the language have grown exponentially and while I can't possibly know all of them, I've found some gems which I really like and would like to share those with you.
Books Note that I'm only listing books that I've read and can recommend. Professional JavaScript for Web Developers by Nicholas Zakas This continues to be my most recommended book. JavaScript’s Strict Mode and Why You Should Use It. Starting with ECMAScript 5, developers are able to place their code into a more constrained form of execution known as strict mode.
Strict mode improves JavaScript code by enforcing better programming practices and eliminating some of the language’s insecure and ill-advised features. Strict mode is enabled by adding the following directive to your code: "use strict"; The “use strict”; directive can be used in two ways. The first method of invoking strict mode is at the file level. The second way to enable strict mode is at the function level. Javascript Snippet Tutorial - Dynamically Modifying Tables.
Whereas we've used Javascript to dynamically modify table contents in a previous tutorial, we've never written a tutorial specifically explaining how it's done.
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