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Mastering JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming

You're reading from   Mastering JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming Advanced patterns, faster techniques, higher quality code

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785889103
Length 292 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. A Refresher of Objects FREE CHAPTER 2. Diving into OOP Principles 3. Working with Encapsulation and Information Hiding 4. Inheriting and Creating Mixins 5. Defining Contracts with Duck Typing 6. Advanced Object Creation 7. Presenting Data to the User 8. Data Binding 9. Asynchronous Programming and Promises 10. Organizing Code 11. SOLID Principles 12. Modern Application Architectures

JavaScript OOP versus classical OOP

The discussion conducted so far shows how JavaScript supports the fundamental OOP principles and can be considered a true OOP language as many others. However, JavaScript differs from most other languages for certain specific features which can create some concern to the developers used to working with programming languages that implement the classical OOP.

The first of these features is the dynamic nature of the language both in data type management and object creation. Since data types are dynamically evaluated, some features of OOP, such as polymorphism, are implicitly supported. Moreover, the ability to change an object structure at runtime breaks the common sense that binds an object to a more abstract entity such as a class.

The lack of the concept of class is another big difference with the classical OOP. Of course, we are talking about the class generalization, nothing to do with the class construct introduced by ES6 that represents just a...

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