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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

A meta-closure approach

The basic idea of the previous approach builds on the nature of closure. The constructor's environment is protected by default and remains accessible from the inside of the constructor itself even after it terminates. However, since the closure is created when the constructor is called, each object instance needs to have both private data and privileged methods defined inside the constructor context. An ideal solution should be one that protects private data letting them be accessible from outside the constructor's closure. This should be a sort of meta-closure that offers an extra level of protection-a closure accessible from outside the object constructor by prototype members still hiding private data of the resulting object. This meta—closure can be built using an Immediately Invoked Function Expression (IIFE).

Immediately invoked function expressions

An IIFE, also called a self-executing anonymous function, is a JavaScript expression involving...

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