JavaScript Performance Playbook
by Steve Buchanan
This course will teach you how to optimize your JavaScript app, or API overall, so that they will be lightning-fast and perform well.
What you'll learn
Building a JavaScript web app or API is the first step. Making it perform well is the next step. In this course, JavaScript Performance Playbook, you’ll learn to optimize and enhance the performance of your JavaScript app. First, you’ll explore JavaScript performance fundamentals. Next, you’ll discover modernizing legacy JavaScript code, tools to enhance performance, memory management, and DOM optimization. Finally, you’ll learn how to optimize JavaScript execution and move to asynchronous JavaScript code. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of making JavaScript perform well needed to run a performant JavaScript web app or API.
About the author
Steve Buchanan is a startup advisor, and seasoned Principal PM Manager at Microsoft, driving innovation and enhancing the cloud experience for users worldwide. With over twenty years in the tech industry, Steve brings a unique blend of leadership, strategic planning, and technical expertise to one of the world's leading tech companies.
An accomplished thought leader, Steve has shared insights on over a dozen podcasts, co-authored MN’s computer science plan, he authored 8 technical books, a resp... moreected Pluralsight and O’Reilly author, empowering tech pros to master cutting-edge tech. He is a former 10-time Microsoft MVP continuing as a tech community champion. Steve’s contributions to tech have been widely recognized, including features in prominent publications such as the Star Tribune (the fifth-largest newspaper in the U.S.), one of the “25 ITSM Experts to Watch in 2017,” recognition as an “IT Unity Community Champ”, listed as one of Onalytica's “Who’s Who in Cloud?” top 50 thought leaders, and honored with the 2024 Tekne Exceptional Technology Leadership Award.
Steve is also a sought-after speaker, having delivered engaging presentations at numerous high-profile events, including the keynote for Minnebar 18, and presenting at DevOps Days, Open Source North, Midwest Management Summit (MMS), Microsoft Ignite, Experts Live Europe, and OSCON.
He stays active in the technical community and enjoys blogging about his adventures in the world of tech at www.buchatech.com