JavaScript and the DOM

Today’s topics

• Continue with more examples of:
  • DOM manipulation with JS
  • Events in JS
• Work on Calculator Project
• Event Delegation
• In-class practice CodePen to fork

🎯 Project for the week: JavaScript Calculator

Part 2: Due 4pm Thursday, July 28

When you complete part 1, continue to part 2. Continue in the same repository as part 1, nothing additional to clone for part 2. here.

🐈 Events 🐶

• Use the notes) and the example from class as a guide.
• Pig Game Example

🔖 Resources to use as reference

• DOM Manipulation with Vanilla JS
• How JS Event Delegation Works
• Chapters 13-15 of Eloquent JavaScript

⭐️ EXTRA/TMI

This resource is really not at all necessary to understand or do the project, but if you want to know more about the concept of tree structures in computer science, check out this piece from Vaidehi Joshi’s BaseCS blog series. She is awesome! There is also a thoroughly delightful accompanying BaseCS podcast with the equally amazing Saron Yitbarek.

• BaseCS blog series: How Not to be Stumped by Trees

And here is more info about what is happening when a browser renders a page – very enlightening, although not strictly necessary at this stage:

• About the browser rendering engine
• How browser rendering works

This is a good explanation about how JS events “bubble” up the chain of elements on the page:

• JS Event Bubbling and Capturing

If you would like to know more about the JavaScript Event Loop and how it works, I highly recommend this resource. Don’t miss the video of the conference talk that goes along with it – it’s excellent:

• Loupe: Visualizing the JS Event Loop