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Javascript Unlocked

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Javascript Unlocked

Overview of this book

JavaScript stands bestride the world like a colossus. Having conquered web development, it now advances into new areas such as server scripting, desktop and mobile development, game scripting, and more. One of the most essential languages for any modern developer, the fully-engaged JavaScript programmer need to know the tricks, non-documented features, quirks, and best practices of this powerful, adaptive language. This all-practical guide is stuffed with code recipes and keys to help you unlock the full potential of JavaScript. Start by diving right into the core of JavaScript, with power user techniques for getting better maintainability and performance from the basic building blocks of your code. Get to grips with modular programming to bring real power to the browser, master client-side JavaScript scripting without jQuery or other frameworks, and discover the full potential of asynchronous coding. Do great things with HTML5 APIs, including building your first web component, tackle the essential requirements of writing large-scale applications, and optimize JavaScript’s performance behind the browser. Wrap up with in-depth advice and best practice for debugging and keeping your JavaScript maintainable for scaling, long-term projects. With every task demonstrated in both classic ES5 JavaScript and next generation ES6-7 versions of the language, Whether read cover-to-cover or dipped into for specific keys and recipes, JavaScript Unlocked is your essential guide for pushing JavaScript to its limits.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
JavaScript Unlocked
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Understanding concern separation in JavaScript


While writing JavaScript (especially client-side), one of the major challenges is to avoid spaghetti code, where the same module renders the user view, handles user interactions, and does the business logic. Such a module may quickly grow into a monster of a source file, where a developer rather gets lost than spots and resolves a problem.

The MVC Programming paradigm known as Model View Controller (MVC) splits the application functionality into separate layers such as presentation, data, and user input. MVC in a nutshell implies that a user interacts with the view land in a controller module that manipulates a model, which updates the view. In JavaScript, the controller is usually an observer that listens to UI events. A user clicks a button, the event is fired, and the controller addresses the corresponding model. For example, the controller requests the model to send submitted data to the server. The view is notified about the model state...