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Modular Programming with JavaScript

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Modular Programming with JavaScript

Overview of this book

Programming in the modular manner is always encouraged for bigger systems—it is easier to achieve scalability with modular programming. Even JavaScript developers are now interested in building programs in a modular pattern. Modules help people who aren’t yet familiar with code to find what they are looking for and also makes it easier for programmers to keep things that are related close together. Designing and implementing applications in a modular manner is highly encouraged and desirable in both simple and enterprise level applications. This book covers some real-life examples of modules and how we can translate that into our world of programming and application design. After getting an overview of JavaScript object-oriented programming (OOP) concepts and their practical usage, you should be able to write your own object definitions using the module pattern. You will then learn to design and augment modules and will explore the concepts of cloning, inheritance, sub-modules, and code extensibility. You will also learn about SandBoxing, application design, and architecture based on modular design concepts. Become familiar with AMD and CommonJS utilities. By the end of the book, you will be able to build spectacular modular applications in JavaScript.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Modular Programming with JavaScript
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
2
Review of Important JavaScript OOP Concepts
Index

Summary


The goal of this chapter was to provide a quick overview of some OOP concepts in JavaScript. Having a good understanding of these concepts is important as we will be using them in implementing our modular architecture in the following chapters.

In this chapter, we looked at various ways of creating objects as well as concepts such as closure, encapsulation, and inheritance.

The assumption that I made was that you likely have a fairly good experience with JavaScript and are probably familiar with at least some of these concepts.

My intent was to provide "just enough" of a review of JavaScript OOP concepts to get you ready for future chapters.

There are many good resources available that can help you extend your knowledge of Object Oriented JavaScript principles further.

Two of my personal favorites on this topic are:

  • Object-Oriented JavaScript, Stoyan Stefanov, Kumar Chetan Sharma

  • Professional JavaScript for Web Developers, Nicholas C. Zakas

In the next chapter, we will start focusing...