Object-Oriented JavaScript - Third Edition

Ved Antani, Stoyan Stefanov

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781785884719
• Edition: 3
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Programming in JavaScript
• Index: Computer Science

Learn everything you need to know about object-oriented JavaScript with this comprehensive guide. Enter the world of cutting-edge development!About This Book• This book has been updated to cover all the new object-oriented features introduced in ECMAScript 6• It makes object-oriented programming accessible and understandable to web developers • Write better and more maintainable JavaScript code while exploring interactive examples that can be used in your own scriptsWho This Book Is ForThis book is ideal for new to intermediate JavaScript developers who want to prepare themselves for web development problems solved by object-oriented JavaScript!What You Will Learn• Apply the basics of object-oriented programming in the JavaScript environment• Use a JavaScript Console with complete mastery• Make your programs cleaner, faster, and compatible with other programs and libraries• Get familiar with Iterators and Generators, the new features added in ES6• Find out about ECMAScript 6's Arrow functions, and make them your own• Understand objects in Google Chrome developer tools and how to use them• Use a mix of prototypal inheritance and copying properties in your workflow• Apply reactive programming techniques while coding in JavaScriptIn DetailJavaScript is an object-oriented programming language that is used for website development. Web pages developed today currently follow a paradigm that has three clearly distinguishable parts: content (HTML), presentation (CSS), and behavior (JavaScript). JavaScript is one important pillar in this paradigm, and is responsible for the running of the web pages.This book will take your JavaScript skills to a new level of sophistication and get you prepared for your journey through professional web development. Updated for ES6, this book covers everything you will need to unleash the power of object-oriented programming in JavaScript while building professional web applications. The book begins with the basics of object-oriented programming in JavaScript and then gradually progresses to cover functions, objects, and prototypes, and how these concepts can be used to make your programs cleaner, more maintainable, faster, and compatible with other programs/libraries. By the end of the book, you will have learned how to incorporate object-oriented programming in your web development workflow to build professional JavaScript applications.Style and approachFilled with practical instructions, the book shows you how to implement object-oriented features of JavaScript in the real world. The to-the-point nature of the book will benefit developers who are looking for a fast-paced guide to learn object-oriented JavaScript.

Object-Oriented JavaScript - Third Edition

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Object-Oriented JavaScript - Third Edition

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First published: July 2008

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Authors Ved Antani Stoyan Stefanov	Copy Editor Zainab Bootwala
Reviewer Mohamed Sanaulla	Project Coordinator Ritika Manoj
Commissioning Editor Wilson Dsouza	Proofreader Safis Editing
Acquisition Editor Denim Pinto	Indexer Rekha Nair
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Technical Editor Abhishek Sharma	Production Coordinator Arvindkumar Gupta

About the Authors

Ved Antani has been building scalable server and mobile platforms using JavaScript, Go, and Java since 2005. He is an associate vice president at Myntra and has previously worked at Electronic Arts and Oracle. He is an avid reader and author on several subjects. He has studied computer science and currently lives in Bangalore, India. Ved is passionate about classical music and loves to spend time with his son.

Writing this book required a significant investment of my time, and I would like to thank my parents and family for their support and encouragement during those long days and weekends when I was practically invisible.

Stoyan Stefanov is a Facebook engineer, author, and speaker. He talks regularly about web development topics at conferences, and his blog, www.phpied.com. He also runs a number of other sites, including JSPatterns.com - a site dedicated to exploring JavaScript patterns. Previously at Yahoo!, Stoyan was the architect of YSlow 2.0 and creator of the image optimization tool, Smush.it.

A "citizen of the world", Stoyan was born and raised in Bulgaria, but is also a Canadian citizen, currently residing in Los Angeles, California. In his offline moments, he enjoys playing the guitar, taking flying lessons, and spending time at the Santa Monica beaches with his family.

I'd like to dedicate this book to my wife, Eva, and my daughters, Zlatina and Nathalie. Thank you for your patience, support, and encouragement.

About the Reviewer

Mohamed Sanaulla is a software developer with more than 7 years of experience in developing enterprise applications and Java-based back-end solutions for e-commerce applications.

His interests include Enterprise software development, refactoring and redesigning applications, designing and implementing RESTful web services, troubleshooting Java applications for performance issues, and TDD.

He has strong expertise in Java-based application development, ADF (JSF-based JavaEE web framework), SQL, PL/SQL, JUnit, designing RESTful services, Spring, Struts, Elasticsearch, and MongoDB. He is also a Sun Certified Java Programmer for the Java 6 platform. He is a moderator for JavaRanch.com. He likes to share findings on his blog (http://sanaulla.info).

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Preface

JavaScript has emerged as one of the most robust and versatile programming language around. Modern JavaScript embraces a vast array of time-tested and cutting edge features. Several of these features are slowly giving shape to the next generation of web and server platforms. ES6 introduces very important language constructs, such as promises, classes, arrow functions, and several, much anticipated features. This book takes a detailed look at the language constructs and their practical uses....