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Learn ECMAScript - Second Edition

By : MEHUL MOHAN, Narayan Prusty
Book Image

Learn ECMAScript - Second Edition

By: MEHUL MOHAN, Narayan Prusty

Overview of this book

Learn ECMAScript explores implementation of the latest ECMAScript features to add to your developer toolbox, helping you to progress to an advanced level. Learn to add 1 to a variable andsafely access shared memory data within multiple threads to avoid race conditions. You’ll start the book by building on your existing knowledge of JavaScript, covering performing arithmetic operations, using arrow functions and dealing with closures. Next, you will grasp the most commonly used ECMAScript skills such as reflection, proxies, and classes. Furthermore, you’ll learn modularizing the JS code base, implementing JS on the web and how the modern HTML5 + JS APIs provide power to developers on the web. Finally, you will learn the deeper parts of the language, which include making JavaScript multithreaded with dedicated and shared web workers, memory management, shared memory, and atomics. It doesn’t end here; this book is 100% compatible with ES.Next. By the end of this book, you'll have fully mastered all the features of ECMAScript!
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
PacktPub.com
Contributors
Preface
Index

Working with the Proxy API


The ES6 Proxy API provides the proxy constructor to create proxies. The proxy constructor takes two arguments, which are:

  • Target: This is the object that will be wrapped by the proxy
  • Handler: This is an object that contains the traps for the target object

A trap can be defined for every possible operation on the target object. If a trap is not defined, then the default action takes place on the target. Here is a code example that shows how to create a proxy, and does various operations on the target object. In this example, we have not defined any traps:

const target = {  age: 12 }; 
const handler = {}; 
const proxy = new Proxy(target, handler); 
proxy.name = "Eden"; 
console.log(target.name); 
console.log(proxy.name); 
console.log(target.age); 
console.log(proxy.age);

This outputs the following:

Eden
Eden
12
12

Here, we can see that the age property of the target object can be accessed via the proxy object. When we added the name property to the proxy object, it was...