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jQuery Design Patterns

You're reading from   jQuery Design Patterns Write Elegant, Structured and Efficient jQuery

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785888687
Length 246 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Thodoris Greasidis Thodoris Greasidis
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Preface 1. A Refresher on jQuery and the Composite Pattern FREE CHAPTER 2. The Observer Pattern 3. The Publish/Subscribe Pattern 4. Divide and Conquer with the Module Pattern 5. The Facade Pattern 6. The Builder and Factory Patterns 7. Asynchronous Control Flow Patterns 8. Mock Object Pattern 9. Client-side Templating 10. Plugin and Widget Development Patterns 11. Optimization Patterns Index

The benefits of this pattern


Most of the time, the Facade Pattern is adopted for implementation parts that have a relatively high degree of complexity and are used in several places of an application, wherein large pieces of code can be replaced with a simple call to the created Facade, leading not only to less code repetition, but also helping us to increase the readability of the implementation. Since the Facade methods are usually named by the higher-level application concepts that they encapsulate, the resulting code is also easier to understand. The simplified API that a Facade provides through its convenient methods, leads to an implementation that is easier to use, understand, and also write unit tests for.

Moreover, having Facades to abstract complex implementations proves its usefulness in cases where there is a need to introduce a change to the business logic of the implementation. In case a Facade has a well-designed API with a prediction for future requirements, such changes can...

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