Chapter 1, A Refresher of Objects, recalls some basic concepts about objects management in JavaScript covering literal objects, constructor functions and classes.

Chapter 2, Diving into OOP Principles, shows that JavaScript supports all the basic principles that allows us to define it a true OOP language.

Chapter 3, Working with Encapsulation and Information Hiding, describes some techniques to protect private members of an object, implementing Encapsulation and Information Hiding principles.

Chapter 4, Inheriting and Creating Mixins, covers the inheritance mechanism of JavaScript based on prototypes and the creation of mixins.

Chapter 5, Defining Contracts with Duck Typing, focuses on using duck typing instead of relying on type checking and shows some techniques to emulate classical OOP interfaces.

Chapter 6, Advanced Object Creation, discusses some different ways to create objects and introduces a few Design Patterns such as the Factory Pattern and the Builder Pattern.

Chapter 7, Presenting Data to the User, explores the most common Presentation Patterns such as Model View Controller Pattern and Model View ViewModel Pattern.

Chapter 8, Data Binding, explains how to implement Data Binding and describes Patterns such as the Observer Pattern and the Publisher/Subscriber Pattern.

Chapter 9, Asynchronous Programming and Promises, discusses the issues with asynchronous programming in JavaScript and shows how to overcome them with Promises and other innovative techniques.

Chapter 10, Organizing Code, analyzes the various approaches to organize JavaScript code in modules: from the classical IIFE to the latest ECMAScript 6 modules.

Chapter 11, SOLID Principles, explores how to apply the five SOLID Design Principles in order to create scalable and maintainable applications.

Chapter 12, Modern Application Architectures, describes the most common architectures for JavaScript applications and introduces the Facade and Mediator Patterns.

Most of the code provided in this book is not bound to a specific JavaScript runtime environment, so it could run in any JavaScript environment. However some examples are specific for the Web browser environment, so the console of Web Inspector such as Chrome Developer tools or Firebug is needed.

This book is intended for developers with some knowledge and experience in JavaScript that want to deepen the OOP approach.

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "Mount the downloaded WebStorm-10*.dmg disk image file as another disk in your system."

A block of code is set as follows:

var person = {};
person.name = "John";
person.surname = "Smith";
person.address = {
                street: "123 Duncannon Street",
                city: "London",
                country: "United Kingdom"
              };

For this book we have outlined the shortcuts for the Mac OX platform if you are using the Windows version you can find the relevant shortcuts on the WebStorm help page  https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/help/keyboard-shortcuts-by-category.html.

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