Mastering JavaScript Design Patterns: Discover how to use JavaScript design patterns to create powerful applications with reliable and maintainable code

Simon Timms

Nov 2014 · Packt Publishing Ltd

About this ebook

Key Features

Book DescriptionIf you are a developer interested in creating easily maintainable applications that can grow and change with your needs, then this book is for you. Some experience with JavaScript (not necessarily with entire applications written in JavaScript) is required to follow the examples written in the book.What you will learn

• Discover and use tried and tested design patterns for a more effective approach to JavaScript
• Learn simple strategies for improving your code organization
• Get to grips with creational, behavioural and structural design patterns
• Rethink and revitalize your code with the use of functional patterns
• Harness the power of design patterns for a range of development tasks from building an application to code testing
• Explore advanced JavaScript design patterns including dependency injection

Who this book is for

About the author

Simon Timms is a developer who loves to write code. He writes in a variety of languages using a number of tools. For the most part, he develops web applications with .NET backends. He is very interested in visualizations and cloud computing. A background in build and system administration keeps him on the straight and narrow when it comes to DevOps. He is the author of Social Data Visualization with HTML5 and JavaScript, Packt Publishing. He blogs at http://blog.simontimms.com/ and is also a frequent contributor to the Canadian Developer Connection, where his latest series explores evolving ASP.NET applications. He is the President of the Calgary .NET User Group and a member of half a dozen others. He speaks on a variety of topics from DevOps to how the telephone system works. He works as a web developer for Pacesetter Directional Drilling, the friendliest performance drilling company around.