Preface

The main focus of this book is employing data structures and algorithms in real-world web applications using JavaScript.

With JavaScript making its way onto the server side and with Single Page Application (SPA) frameworks taking over the client side, a lot, if not all, of the business logic, is being ported over to the client side. This makes it crucial to employ hand-crafted data structures and algorithms that are tailor-made for a given use case.

For example, when working on data visualizations such as charts, graphs, and 3D or 4D models, there might be tens or even hundreds of thousands of complex objects being served from the server, sometimes in near real time. There are more ways than one in which this data can be handled and that is what we will be exploring, with real-world examples.