The Joy of JavaScript introduces techniques that turn JavaScript programmers into JavaScript pros. Whether building interactive browser-based applications or creating server-side applications in Node, JavaScript is the most widely used language for web programming. With new features, language improvements, paradigms, and potential use cases appearing regularly, there's never been a more exciting time to be a JavaScript developer. In The Joy of JavaScript, author and JavaScript expert Luis Atencio teaches you key design concepts that lead to clean, lean, modular, and easy-to-maintain code.
About the technology
JavaScript is at the heart of web applications on the browser side and, via the popular Node.js runtime, it often powers the server side too. Simply put, the web runs on JavaScript.
What's inside JavaScript's objects and module system Working with higher order functions Identifying and creating composable software Preparing for upcoming JavaScript features
Table of Contents 1 JavaScript reloaded PART 1 -OBJECTS 2 Inheritance-based object modeling 3 Linked, compositional object models PART 2 -FUNCTIONS 4 Writing composable, pure code 5 Higher-kinded composition PART 3 -CODE 6 ECMAScript Modules 7 Hooked on metaprogramming PART 4 -DATA 8 Linear async flows 9 Stream programming
