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Mastering JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming

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Mastering JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming

Overview of this book

ECMAScript 6 introduces several new Object-Oriented features that drastically change the way developers structure their projects. Web developers now have some advanced OOP functionality at their disposal to build large-scale applications in JavaScript. With this book, we'll provide you with a comprehensive overview of OOP principles in JavaScript and how they can be implemented to build sophisticated web applications. Kicking off with a subtle refresher on objects, we'll show you how easy it is to define objects with the new ES6 classes. From there, we'll fly you through some essential OOP principles, forming a base for you to get hands-on with encapsulation. You'll get to work with the different methods of inheritance and we'll show you how to avoid using inheritance with Duck Typing. From there, we'll move on to some advanced patterns for object creation and you'll get a strong idea of how to use interesting patterns to present data to users and to bind data. We'll use the famous promises to work with asynchronous processes and will give you some tips on how to organize your code effectively. You'll find out how to create robust code using SOLID principles and finally, we'll show you how to clearly define the goals of your application architecture to get better, smarter, and more effective coding. This book is your one-way ticket to becoming a JavaScript Jedi who can be counted on to deliver flexible and maintainable code.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming
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About the Author
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Preface

Is JavaScript asynchronous?


In JavaScript programming, we often deal with activities virtually executed concurrently. For instance, events can occur independently from the main execution flow of an application and many events can occur at the same time. If we attached handlers for many events, we expect these to run immediately upon the occurrence of the associated event.

Actually, things are not exactly like that. JavaScript concurrency model is not really parallel or multithread. Even if events can occur in parallel, their handling is sequential and the interactions between the involved codes is asynchronous. This means that an event can occur at a given time, but the execution of its handler can occur after some time.

Event loop and asynchronous code

In languages that support concurrency, the code of a thread can be interrupted to take the code of another thread forward. In JavaScript, everything happens in one single thread. The concurrency model that gives the impression that many threads...