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Modular Programming with JavaScript

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Modular Programming with JavaScript

Overview of this book

Programming in the modular manner is always encouraged for bigger systems—it is easier to achieve scalability with modular programming. Even JavaScript developers are now interested in building programs in a modular pattern. Modules help people who aren’t yet familiar with code to find what they are looking for and also makes it easier for programmers to keep things that are related close together. Designing and implementing applications in a modular manner is highly encouraged and desirable in both simple and enterprise level applications. This book covers some real-life examples of modules and how we can translate that into our world of programming and application design. After getting an overview of JavaScript object-oriented programming (OOP) concepts and their practical usage, you should be able to write your own object definitions using the module pattern. You will then learn to design and augment modules and will explore the concepts of cloning, inheritance, sub-modules, and code extensibility. You will also learn about SandBoxing, application design, and architecture based on modular design concepts. Become familiar with AMD and CommonJS utilities. By the end of the book, you will be able to build spectacular modular applications in JavaScript.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Modular Programming with JavaScript
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
2
Review of Important JavaScript OOP Concepts
Index

Chapter 2. Review of Important JavaScript OOP Concepts

Before we start creating and using our modules in JavaScript, it is important to have a good grasp of important Object Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts in JavaScript. We will rely on such concepts to design and implement our application modules in later chapters.

While my intent in this chapter is not to explore such conceptes in great depth, I will try to provide a good overview of some of the most important related topics.

If you feel that you are quite familiar with these concepts in JavaScript, you could skip this chapter and move on to the next one.

However, if you are not very familiar with OOP in JavaScript, even if you are familiar with similar concepts in classical object oriented languages, I encourage you to follow along as things are a little different in JavaScript. I think it will be worthwhile for you to have a look at these concepts in the realm of JavaScript.

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • JavaScript objects and their...