CoffeeScript Ristretto
CoffeeScript Ristretto
An intense cup of code
About the Book
"I particularly enjoyed this small book because I've reached for it a hundred times before and come up empty-handed. Large and heavy manuals on object-oriented programming and JavaScript are all around us, but to find a book that tackles the fundamental features of functions and objects in a brief, strong gulp, is rare indeed."—Jeremy Ashkenas, creator of the CoffeeScript Language
"Loving CoffeeScript Ristretto!"—Larry Marburger
"I was also seriously caught up by [the] digression into espresso, ristretto, etc.Worth the purchase just for the intro."—Chris Smith
"Best explanation of closures i've seen yet."—Jerry Anning
CoffeeScript Ristretto is a book about programming with functions that uses the CoffeeScript programming language for the examples and exercises. CoffeeScript Ristretto is for:
- Programmers learning CoffeeScript who want a thorough grounding in its fundamentals rather than a cursory treatment of its syntax.
- Programmers already using CoffeeScript who want to go back and take a deep dive into programming with functions and combinators.
- Any programmer curious about programming with functions.
CoffeeScript Ristretto's primary focus is functions as first-class values and advanced topics built on those fundamentals such as callbacks, combinators, method decorators, fluent APIs, and continuation-passing style. Download two free sample chapters and see for yourself!
About the Author
Table of Contents
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A Pull of the Lever: Prefaces
- About This Book
- Foreword by Jeremy Ashkenas
- Legend
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Prelude: Values and Expressions
- values and expressions
- values and identity
- CoffeeScript Ristretto
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The first sip: Functions
- As Little As Possible About Functions, But No Less
- Ah. I’d Like to Have an Argument, Please.
- Closures and Scope
- Summary
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Slurp: More About Functions and Scope
- Let Me Show You What To Do
- A Simple Question
- Making Things Easy
- Summary
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References, Identity, Arrays, and Objects
- arguments and arrays
- references and objects
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Stir the Espresso: Objects, Mutation, and State
- Reassignment and Mutation
- Normal Variables
- Comprehensions
- Encapsulating State with Closures
- Composition and Extension
- This and That
- Summary
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Finish the Cup: Instances and Classes
- Prototypes are Simple, it’s the Explanations that are Hard To Understand
- A Touch of Class
- Object Methods
- Canonicalization
- This Section Needs No Title
- Extending Classes
- Summary
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An Extra Shot of Ideas
- Refactoring to Combinators
- Method Decorators
- Callbacks and Promises
- Summary
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A Golden Crema
- How to run the examples
- Thanks!
- JavaScript Allongé
- Copyright Notice
- About The Author
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