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Mastering JavaScript

By : Ved Antani
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Mastering JavaScript

By: Ved Antani

Overview of this book

JavaScript is a high-level, dynamic, untyped, lightweight, and interpreted programming language. Along with HTML and CSS, it is one of the three essential technologies of World Wide Web content production, and is an open source and cross-platform technology. The majority of websites employ JavaScript, and it is well supported by all modern web browsers without plugins. However, the JavaScript landscape has changed dramatically in recent years, and you need to adapt to the new world of JavaScript that people now expect. Mastering modern JavaScript techniques and the toolchain are essential to develop web-scale applications. Mastering JavaScript will be your companion as you master JavaScript and build innovative web applications. To begin with, you will get familiarized with the language constructs and how to make code easy to organize. You will gain a concrete understanding of variable scoping, loops, and best practices on using types and data structures, as well as the coding style and recommended code organization patterns in JavaScript. The book will also teach you how to use arrays and objects as data structures. You will graduate from intermediate-level skills to advanced techniques as you come to understand crucial language concepts and design principles. You will learn about modern libraries and tools so you can write better code. By the end of the book, you will understand how reactive JavaScript is going to be the new paradigm.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Mastering JavaScript
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The Model-View-Presenter pattern


Model-View-Presenter is a variation of the original MVC pattern that we discussed previously. Both MVC and MVP target the separation of concerns but they are different on many fundamental aspects. The presenter in MVP has the necessary logic for the view. Any invocation from the view gets delegated to the presenter. The presenter also observes the model and updates the views when the model updates. Many authors take the view that because the presenter binds the model with views, it also performs the role of a traditional controller. There are various implementations of MVP and there are no frameworks that offer classical MVP out of the box. In implementations of MVP, the following are the primary differences that separate MVP from MVC:

  • The view has no reference to the model

  • The presenter has a reference to the model and is responsible for updating the view when the model changes

MVP is generally implemented in two flavors:

  • Passive view: The view is as naïve as...