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Object-Oriented JavaScript - Third Edition

By : Stoyan STEFANOV, Antani
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Book Image

Object-Oriented JavaScript - Third Edition

5 (1)
By: Stoyan STEFANOV, Antani

Overview of this book

JavaScript 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.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
15
B. Built-in Functions
17
D. Regular Expressions

Closures


The rest of the chapter is about closures (what better way to close a chapter?). Closures can be a little hard to grasp initially, so don't feel discouraged if you don't get it during the first read. You should go through the rest of the chapter and experiment with the examples on your own, but if you feel you don't fully understand the concept, you can come back to it later when the topics discussed previously in this chapter have had a chance to sink in.

Before moving on to closures, let's first review and expand on the concept of scope in JavaScript.

Scope chain

As you know, in JavaScript, there is no curly braces scope, but there is a function scope. A variable defined in a function is not visible outside the function, but a variable defined in a code block (for example an if or a for loop) is visible outside the block, for example:

    > var a = 1;  
    > function f() { 
        var b = 1;  
        return a; 
      } 
    > f(); 
    1 ...