Book Image

Mastering JavaScript

By : Ved Antani
Book Image

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

Model-View-ViewModel


MVVM was originally coined by Microsoft for use with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight. MVVM is a variation of MVC and MVP and further tries to separate the user interface (view) from the business model and application behavior. MVVM creates a new model layer in addition to the domain model that we discussed in MVC and MVP. This model layer adds properties as an interface for the view. Let's say that we have a checkbox on the UI. The state of the checkbox is captured in an IsChecked property. In MVP, the view will have this property and the presenter will set it. However, in MVVM, the presenter will have the IsChecked property and the view is responsible for syncing with it. Now that the presenter is not really doing the job of a classical presenter, it's renamed as ViewModel:

Implementation details of these approaches are dependent on the problem that we are trying to solve and the framework that we use.