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Have you ever come up against an application that felt like it was built on sand? Maybe you've been tasked with creating an application that needs to last longer than a year before a complete re-write? If so, JavaScript at Scale is your missing documentation for maintaining scalable architectures. There's no prerequisite framework knowledge required for this book, however, most concepts presented throughout are adaptations of components found in frameworks such as Backbone, AngularJS, or Ember. All code examples are presented using ECMAScript 6 syntax, to make sure your applications are ready for next generation browsers.

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SuJo Oct 26, 2015

JavaScript at Scale was very enlightening, especially the portion on "Influencers of Scale" as it addresses one of the many problems developers face, how to scale properly. The aspect of having a model in place was nothing more than a design pattern in my mind, until I read this book. There are a lot of considerations to be made when writing an application, this book offers clear direction.

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Dustin Marx Aug 29, 2015

"JavaScript at Scale" is a different type of book than many JavaScript-oriented books. "JavaScript at Scale" features some code listings to illustrate the points it makes, but the majority of the book is in discussion format and discusses various issues a JavaScript developer may encounter during different portions of the lifecycle of development of a large-scale JavaScript application. The book presents checklists of things to consider when architecting and designing JavaScript applications and provides conversational discussion regarding trade-offs that need to be made to address different scalability issues.The objective of "JavaScript at Scale" seems to me to be to get JavaScript architects and developers to proactively consider how to architect and design their applications with scalability in mind and how to redesign these applications as necessary. While different scalability issues are presented along with high-level discussion of ways to address these issues, much of the book's value is simply in articulating what developers and architects should consider and various approaches they might consider to address issues they identify.The author of "JavaScript at Scale" mentions a few JavaScript tools and frameworks, but intentionally keeps the discussion focused on generic JavaScript rather than on any specific library, tool, or framework. The author points out that these frameworks and libraries bring their own assumptions to the software and so their assumptions and design issues need to be considered along with consideration of custom portions of a given JavaScript application. There are multiple places in the book where it is shown that assumptions and expectations of frameworks, libraries, and popular design patterns can actually go from being helpful to being a hindrance in terms of scalability.The reader of "JavaScript at Scale" is likely to leave the book with as many or even more questions than he or she had when he or she started the book. This seems to be the author's point and the idea is that these questions will help the reader contemplate the appropriate actions to make a JavaScript application (more) scalable in several different ways.I reviewed a PDF version of "JavaScript at Scale" provided to me for review by Packt Publishing and did not receive any other compensation for my review. The code listings even in the PDF are black text on white background with no color syntax and no line numbers. There are a few basic typos and grammar errors in the book, but most of it is highly readable. Some experience with JavaScript is preferable for readers of this book because it assumes familiarity with the language. There is far more discussion text than code in this book, which fits the idea of thinking about architecture and design issues for scalability rather than focusing on code-level implementation details. That stated, there are some code listings that demonstrate scalability issues presented in code and how to re-write that same functionality to be more scalable.

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