The Joy of JavaScript (pdf)

Description

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.

About the book
The Joy of JavaScript introduces techniques that turn JavaScript programmers into JavaScript pros. You’ll work with cutting edge APIs, language features, and coding styles to tackle tricky problems in an elegant manner. Along the way, you’ll practice good object design, drive business logic with functional thinking, and untangle complex data flows.

What’s inside

JavaScript’s objects and module system
Working with higher order functions
Identifying and creating composable software
Preparing for upcoming JavaScript features

About the reader
Written for experienced and passionate JavaScript developers.

About the author
Luis Atencio is a software engineer for Citrix Systems, author of Manning’s Functional Programming in JavaScript, and co-author of Manning’s RxJS in Action.

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