How JavaScript Works

Douglas Crockford

ISBN 10: 1949815005 / ISBN 13: 9781949815009

Published by Virgule-Solidus LLC, 2018

About this Item

nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book is for people who have had some experience with JavaScript, and want to have a better, deeper understanding of how it works and how to use it well. It is also for experienced programmers who are looking to understand the workings of another language.This book is not for beginners. I hope to someday write a book for beginners. This is not that book. This is not a light book. If you skim it, you will likely get nothing from of it.This book is not about JavaScript engines or virtual machines. It is about the language itself and the things every programmer should know about it. This book is a radical reappraisal of JavaScript, how it works, how it could be made better, and how it can be better used. It is about how to think about JavaScript and how to think in JavaScript. I am going to pretend that the current version of the language is the only version. I am not going to waste your time by showing how things worked in ES1 or ES3 or ES5. That does not matter. The focus is on how JavaScript works for us now.This book is not comprehensive. There are large, complex chunks of the language that will be dismissed without a word. If I fail to mention your most favorite feature, that is most likely because that feature is crap. I will not be paying much attention to syntax. I am assuming that you already know how to write an if statement.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How JavaScript Works
• Publisher: Virgule-Solidus LLC
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1949815005
• ISBN 13: 9781949815009
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 254W x 178H x 16D millimeters 254 millimeters width by 178 millimeters height by 16 millimeters depth
• Weight: 532 grams

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Synopsis

Douglas Crockford starts by looking at the fundamentals: names, numbers, booleans, characters, and bottom values. JavaScript’s number type is shown to be faulty and limiting, but then Crockford shows how to repair those problems. He then moves on to data structures and functions, exploring the underlying mechanisms and then uses higher order functions to achieve class-free object oriented programming. The book also looks at eventual programming, testing, and purity, all the while looking at the requirements of The Next Language. Most of our languages are deeply rooted in the paradigm that produced FORTRAN. Crockford attacks those roots, liberating us to consider the next paradigm.He also presents a strawman language and develops a complete transpiler to implement it. The book is deep, dense, full of code, and has moments when it is intentionally funny.

About the Author

Douglas Crockford has been called a JavaScript Guru, but he is more of a Mahatma. He was born in Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, but left when he was only six months old because it was just too damn cold. He has worked in learning systems, small business systems, office automation, games, interactive music, multimedia, location-based entertainment, social systems, and programming languages. He is the inventor of Tilton, the ugliest programming language that was not specifically designed to be an ugly programming language. He is best known for having discovered that there are good parts in JavaScript. That was the first important discovery of the Twenty First Century. He also discovered the JSON Data Interchange Format, the world's most loved data format.