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The Joy of JavaScript
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The Joy of JavaScript

by Luis Atencio
March 2021
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
9h 56m
English
Manning Publications
Audiobook available
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This chapter covers

  • Evaluating the key aspects of day-to-day coding: objects, functions, code, and data
  • Comparing prototype- and delegation-based object models
  • Understanding the composability of functions and types
  • Achieving clear separation of concerns through modularity and metaprogramming
  • Using promises and streams programming to create unidirectional data pipelines
  • Introducing the sample blockchain application

Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.

—Jeff Atwood

It’s an amazing time to be a JavaScript developer. Today, JavaScript developers can write code that runs virtually anywhere from tablets, smartphones, desktops, bots, and cloud platforms to the Internet ...

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