C H A P T E R 9
Writing Better JavaScript
In this chapter, I explain some of the techniques I use to create better JavaScript. This is not a language guide, and I won’t be demonstrating any code hacks or tweaks. My coding preferences are your maintenance nightmares, and vice versa. I have seen otherwise mild-mannered people end up in a screaming match over the “right” way to code, and I don’t see the point in lecturing you when I have a fair few bad habits myself.
Instead, I am going to show you some of the techniques I use to make my code easier for other programmers and projects to use. Most large-scale web apps have a team of programmers, and sharing code becomes important.
I have been dumping useful functions into the utils.js file throughout ...
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