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The JavaScript Workshop

You're reading from   The JavaScript Workshop Learn to develop interactive web applications with clean and maintainable JavaScript code

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838641917
Length 802 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jahred Love Jahred Love
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Alonzo L. Hosford Alonzo L. Hosford
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Florian Sloot Florian Sloot
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Daniel Rosenbaum Daniel Rosenbaum
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Philip Kirkbride Philip Kirkbride
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Nick Turner Nick Turner
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Gaurav Mehla Gaurav Mehla
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Joseph Labrecque Joseph Labrecque
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Preface 1. Getting to Know JavaScript 2. Working with JavaScript FREE CHAPTER 3. Programming Fundamentals 4. JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks 5. Beyond the Fundamentals 6. Understanding Core Concepts 7. Popping the Hood 8. Browser APIs 9. Working with Node.js 10. Accessing External Resources 11. Creating Clean and Maintainable Code 12. Using NextGeneration JavaScript 13. JavaScript Programming Paradigms 14. Understanding Functional Programming 15. Asynchronous Tasks Appendix

Memory Management

We'll now move our attention to another core aspect of a computer's hardware – its memory. Memory management is an important, but often overlooked, aspect of developing software in JavaScript. Memory management simply refers to the allocation, use, and deallocation of system memory for the various data structures that make up our programs.

There are two main approaches that are used by different programming languages to handle memory management: explicit allocation and deallocation and automatic allocation and deallocation. When writing software in an explicit memory management language, such as C-like languages, it's the software developer's job to tell the compiler when to allocate memory and how much to allocate to the software at any given stage. The developer also has to decide when that memory is no longer needed and explicitly tell the compiler to deallocate it. This increases the workload for the developer and can lead to...

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