ECMAScript Cookbook

ECMAScript Cookbook

By : Ross Harrison

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ECMAScript Cookbook

By: Ross Harrison

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Overview of this book

ECMAScript Cookbook follows a modular approach with independent recipes covering different feature sets and specifications of ECMAScript to help you become an efficient programmer. This book starts off with organizing your JavaScript applications as well as delivering those applications to modem and legacy systems. You will get acquainted with features of ECMAScript 8 such as async, SharedArrayBuffers, and Atomic operations that enhance asynchronous and parallel operations. In addition to this, this book will introduce you to SharedArrayBuffers, which allow web workers to share data directly, and Atomic operations, which help coordinate behavior across the threads. You will also work with OOP and Collections, followed by new functions and methods on the built-in Object and Array types that make common operations more manageable and less error-prone. You will then see how to easily build more sophisticated and expressive program structures with classes and inheritance. In the end, we will cover Sets, Maps, and Symbols, which are the new types introduced in ECMAScript 6 to add new behaviors and allow you to create simple and powerful modules. By the end of the book, you will be able to produce more efficient, expressive, and simpler programs using the new features of ECMAScript. ?

Title Page

Dedication

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Contributors

Preface

Free Chapter

Building with Modules

Introduction

Installing and configuring - Chrome

Installing and configuring - Firefox

Installing Python, using SimpleHTTPServer to host a local static file server

Creating an HTML page that loads an ECMAScript module

Exporting/importing multiple modules for external use

Renaming imported modules

Nesting modules under a single namespace

Staying Compatible with Legacy Browsers

Introduction

Installing Node.js with NVM – Linux and macOS

Installing Node.js with NVM: Windows

Installing and configuring webpack

Adding fallback script tags to load client bundles

Shimming methods with Babel Polyfill

Supporting new language features with Babel

Using tools to analyze webpack bundles

Working with Promises

Introduction

Creating and waiting for Promises

Resolving Promise results

Rejecting Promise errors

Chaining Promises

Starting a Promise chain with Promise.resolve

Using Promise.all to resolve multiple promises

Handling errors with Promise.catch

Simulating finally with the promise API

Working with async/await and Functions

Introduction

Creating promises with an async function

Awaiting the result of async functions

Using async results in a Promise chain

Awaiting multiple results in a series

Awaiting multiple results concurrently

Using Promise.all to collect an array of async results

Handling errors when awaiting an async function

Handling errors thrown inside of Promise.all

Using finally to ensure an operation is performed

Web Workers, Shared Memory, and Atomics

Introduction

Enabling SharedArrayBuffers in Firefox

Enabling SharedArrayBuffers in Chrome

Performing work on separate threads with Web Workers

Sending messages to and from Web Workers

Sending data to a Web Worker

Stopping workers with terminate

Creating SharedArrayBuffer

Sending SharedArrayBuffer to a Web Worker

Reading SharedArray from multiple Web Workers

Using Atomics to coordinate the use of shared memory

Using promises to provide a simple interface for a worker

Plain Objects

Introduction

Using Object.assign to add properties to an object

Using Object.entries to get iterable property-name pairs

Using Object.is to compare two values

Defining function properties as methods on a plain object

Defining read-only props with Object.defineProperty

Overriding read-only props with Object.defineProperty

Creating a non-enumerable property with Object.defineProperty

Creating an object using object structuring

Picking values from an object using destructuring

Using a spread operator to combine objects

Creating Classes

Introduction

Creating a new class

Assigning properties with constructor arguments

Defining methods on a class

Checking instance type with instanceOf

Using getters to create read-only properties

Using setters to encapsulate values

Using static methods to work with all instances

Inheritance and Composition

Introduction

Extending a class

Assigning additional properties with constructor arguments

Overriding parent class instance methods

Overriding parent class static methods

Calling super methods

Using composition rather than inheritance to add behavior

Using mix-ins to add behavior

Passing a class as an argument

Checking class inheritance with Object.getPrototypeOf

Using throw to simulate abstract classes

Larger Structures with Design Patterns

Introduction

Defining steps with template functions

Assembling customized instances with builders

Replicating instances with factories

Processing a structure with the visitor pattern

Using a singleton to manage instances

Modifying an existing design pattern to fit different use cases

Combining existing design patterns to fit different use cases

Working with Arrays

Introduction

Using Array#find and Array#filter to find values in an array

Using Array#slice to get a subset of the array

Using Array#every and Array#some to test array values

Using Array.map to produce values

Using Array.reduce to transform data

Extracting array members with destructuring

Getting the head and tail of array using the rest operator

Combining arrays with the spread operator

Working with Maps and Symbols

Introduction

Using Symbol to create a local instance

Using Symbol.for to create a global instance

Using Symbol to simulate enums

Setting and deleting entries from Map

Creating a Map from the existing data

Creating a class that wraps Map to work with specific complex types

Setting and deleting entries from WeakMap

Creating a WeakMap from existing data

Creating a class that uses WeakMap to work with specific complex types

Working with Sets

Introduction

Adding and deleting items from a Set

Creating a Set from existing data

Adding and deleting items from WeakSet

Creating a WeakSet from existing data

Finding the union of two sets

Finding the intersection of two sets

Finding the difference between two sets

Creating a class that wraps a Set to work with more complex types

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Introduction

JavaScript is the most famous language that adheres to the ECMAScript standard. This standard was created in the late 1990s in order to guide the development of the language. In the early years, development was slow, with only four major versions reaching production in the first two decades. However, with increased exposure, largely thanks to the popularization of the Node.js run-time, the pace of development has increased dramatically. The years 2015, 2016, and 2017 each saw new releases of the of the standard, with another planned for 2018.

With all these developments, now is an exciting time to be a JavaScript developer. A lot of new ideas are coming in from other languages, and the standard API is expanding to be more helpful. This book focuses on new features and techniques that can be used in the newer versions of JS as well as future versions!

Historically, creating JavaScript programs that span multiple files has been a painful experience. The simplest approach was to include each of the files in separate <script> tags. This also requires developers to position the tags in the correct order.

Various libraries have attempted to improve this situation. RequireJS, Browserfy, and Webpack all attempt to solve the problem of JavaScript dependencies and module loading. Each of these requires some kind of configuration or build step.

The situation has improved in recent years. Browser manufacturers collaborate in creating the ECMAScript specification. It is then up to the manufacturers to implement JavaScript interpreters (programs that actually run the JavaScript) that adhere to that specification

New versions of browsers are being released that support native ECMAScript modules. ECMAScript modules provide an elegant method for including dependencies. Best of all, unlike the previous methods, modules don't require any build step or configuration.

The recipes in this chapter focus on installing and configuring the Chrome and Firefox web browsers and how to take full advantage of ES modules and the import/export syntax.

ECMAScript Cookbook

By : Ross Harrison

ECMAScript Cookbook

By: Ross Harrison

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