Book Image

Mastering JavaScript Design Patterns - Second Edition

By : Simon Timms
Book Image

Mastering JavaScript Design Patterns - Second Edition

By: Simon Timms

Overview of this book

With the recent release of ES-2015, there are several new object-oriented features and functions introduced in JavaScript. These new features enhance the capabilities of JavaScript to utilize design patterns and software design methodologies to write powerful code. Through this book, you will explore how design patterns can help you improve and organize your JavaScript code. You’ll get to grips with creational, structural and behavioral patterns as you discover how to put them to work in different scenarios. Then, you'll get a deeper look at patterns used in functional programming, as well as model view patterns and patterns to build web applications. This updated edition will also delve into reactive design patterns and microservices as they are a growing phenomenon in the world of web development. You will also find patterns to improve the testability of your code using mock objects, mocking frameworks, and monkey patching. We’ll also show you some advanced patterns including dependency injection and live post processing. By the end of the book, you'll be saved of a lot of trial and error and developmental headaches, and you will be on the road to becoming a JavaScript expert.
Table of Contents (5 chapters)

Chapter 9. Web Patterns

The rise of Node.js has proven that JavaScript has a place on web servers, even very high throughput servers. There is no denying that JavaScript's pedigree remains in the browser for client side programming.

In this chapter we're going to look at a number of patterns to improve the performance and usefulness of JavaScript on the client. I'm not sure that all of these can be thought of as patterns in the strictest sense. They are, however, important and worth mentioning.

The concepts we'll examine in this chapter are as follows:

  • Sending JavaScript
  • Plugins
  • Multithreading
  • Circuit breaker pattern
  • Back-off
  • Promises

Sending JavaScript

Communicating JavaScript to the client seems to be a simple proposition: so long as you can get the code to the client it doesn't matter how that happens, right? Well not exactly. There are actually a number of things that need to be considered when sending JavaScript to the browser.

Combining files

Way back in Chapter...