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Javascript Unlocked

You're reading from   Javascript Unlocked Improve your code maintainability, performance, and security through practical expert insights and unlock the full potential of JavaScript

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785881572
Length 182 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Diving into the JavaScript Core FREE CHAPTER 2. Modular Programming with JavaScript 3. DOM Scripting and AJAX 4. HTML5 APIs 5. Asynchronous JavaScript 6. A Large-Scale JavaScript Application Architecture 7. JavaScript Beyond the Browser 8. Debugging and Profiling Index

How to get out of a mess using modular JavaScript

How many digital photos do you have, probably thousands, or more? Just imagine if your image viewer had no capacity to categorize. No albums, no books, no categories, nothing. It would not be of much use, does it? Now let's assume that you have a JavaScript application in a single file and it grows. When it approaches thousand or more than a thousand lines of code, however good your code design is, from a maintainability perspective, it still turns into a useless pile like that enormous list of uncategorized photos. Instead of building a monolithic application, we have to write several independent modules that combine together to form an application. Thus, we break a complex problem into simpler tasks.

Modules

So, what is a module? A module encapsulates code intended for a particular functionality. A module also provides an interface declaring what elements the module exposes and requires. A module is often packaged in a single file...

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