Pluralsight Courses

In this course, Interacting with Data using jQuery and AJAX you'll learn to make Ajax calls using jQuery. First, you'll explore the history of Ajax with the JavaScript language. Next, you'll discover how to use Promises and jQuery to retrieve and submit data via a Web API server. Finally, you'll learn how to build an HTML form and submit user data using jQuery objects and methods. When you're finished with this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge of jQuery Ajax needed to manipulate data on an HTML page, retrieve, and submit that data via a Web API server.

With the amount of mobile applications and the need for fast websites, REST API developers are in high demand. In this course, JavaScript REST APIs: Getting Started, you'll learn to build a simple Node.js and express server and create a set of endpoints. First, you'll be shown how to build an endpoint to retrieve data. Next, you'll discover how to create endpoints for POST, PUT, PATCH and DELETE. Then, you'll delve into the different HTTP status codes you should return from each endpoint. Next, you'll explore how to handle exceptions and return a standardized JSON document. Finally, you'll see how to call your REST APIs from JavaScript using the XMLHttpRequest object. When you're finished with this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge of Node.js, Express, and JavaScript needed to build your own REST APIs for use in mobile or other applications.

In this course, Working with Geolocation in HTML, you'll learn to retrieve a user's location from their browser and show their location on a map. First, you'll explore the geolocation object available in all modern browsers. Next, you'll discover how to display that location on a map. You will then learn to use Google maps to place markers at that location. Next, you'll use Google Maps to get directions from one location to another. Finally, you'll learn how the Geocoding features of Google Maps will then be used to search for addresses. When you're finished with this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge of geolocation and geocoding needed to embed and use mapping software within any HTML page.

In this course, JavaScript Syntax and Operators, you expand your knowledge of the JavaScript language. First, you learn all about the switch statement and the difference between for/in and for/of. Next, you discover the various math, comparison and logical operators. You then see how to handle exceptions and determine the data type of variables. Finally, you explore the 'this' keyword and the spread operator. When you are finished with this course, you will have gained the skills and knowledge of JavaScript syntax and operators needed to propel your JavaScript applications to the next level.

Offline web applications are becoming very prevalent today. In order to create an offline web application, you must take into account where to store data. A great option is to use PouchDB. In this course, PouchDB Playbook: Simplify Offline Web Application Storage, you will learn to store and retrieve data from a client-side database using PouchDB's NoSQL API. First, you will see how to add, edit, and delete documents, and perform bulk update and retrieval. Then, you will discover how to use Mango queries and the find() API. Finally, you will learn to use map and reduce queries to create design documents and gather statistics. By the time you are finished, you will have enough knowledge to start using PouchDB immediately in your own offline web application.

This course will use a step-by-step approach for showing the student how to build several UI widgets using HTML, HTML 5, CSS/CSS3 and Bootstrap. The overall project for this course is a simple Music Site that shows how to build all these widgets. There will be step-by-step demos for each module to illustrate the concepts of building custom UI widgets. We will use Visual Studio 2013 to build the HTML, however, any editor can be used as we will not be using any Microsoft-specific technology. The concepts in this course can be applied equally to PHP, MVC, Web Forms, or any web development system. At the end of the course the student will have built several ready-to-use UI widgets they can incorporate into their own web projects right away.