JavaScript Allongé, the "Six" Edition
JavaScript Allongé, the "Six" Edition
Programming from Functions to Classes in ECMAScript 2015
About the Book
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Reader Testimonials
Axel Rauschmayer
Author, “Exploring ES6"
JavaScript Allongé, the ‘Six' Edition is both a comprehensive tour of its features and a rich collection of techniques for making better use of them. You will learn much about functional programming and object-oriented programming. And you’ll do so via ES
Jarvis Badgley
Allongé is a must-read book for any JavaScript developer. No single book changed my programming style and the way I approach problems quite like it did.
Daniel Pecos
This book is not the usual Learn the language in 24 hours or something like that. It’s actually a very sharp and deep reading about Javascript and function composition.
Table of Contents
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A Pull of the Lever: Prefaces
- About JavaScript Allongé
- What JavaScript Allongé is. And isn’t.
- Foreword to the “Six” edition
- Forewords to the First Edition
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Prelude: Values and Expressions over Coffee
- values are expressions
- values and identity
- A Rich Aroma: Basic Numbers
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The first sip: Basic Functions
- As Little As Possible About Functions, But No Less
- Ah. I’d Like to Have an Argument, Please.
- Closures and Scope
- That Constant Coffee Craving
- Naming Functions
- Combinators and Function Decorators
- Building Blocks
- Magic Names
- Summary
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Recipes with Basic Functions
- Partial Application
- Unary
- Tap
- Maybe
- Once
- Left-Variadic Functions
- Compose and Pipeline
- Picking the Bean: Choice and Truthiness
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Composing and Decomposing Data
- Arrays and Destructuring Arguments
- Self-Similarity
- Tail Calls (and Default Arguments)
- Garbage, Garbage Everywhere
- Plain Old JavaScript Objects
- Mutation
- Reassignment
- Copy on Write
- Tortoises, Hares, and Teleporting Turtles
- Functional Iterators
- Making Data Out Of Functions
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Recipes with Data
- mapWith
- Flip
- Object.assign
- Why?
- A Warm Cup: Basic Strings and Quasi-Literals
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Stir the Allongé: Objects and State
- Encapsulating State with Closures
- Composition and Extension
- This and That
- What Context Applies When We Call a Function?
- Method Decorators
- Summary
-
Recipes with Objects, Mutations, and State
- Memoize
- getWith
- pluckWith
- Deep Mapping
- The Coffee Factory: “Object-Oriented Programming”
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Served by the Pot: Collections
- Iteration and Iterables
- Generating Iterables
- Lazy and Eager Collections
- Interlude: The Carpenter Interviews for a Job
- Interactive Generators
- Basic Operations on Iterables
- A Coffeehouse: Symbols
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Life on the Plantation: Metaobjects
- Why Metaobjects?
- Mixins, Forwarding, and Delegation
- Later Binding
- Delegation via Prototypes
- Shared Prototypes
- Decaffeinated: Impostors
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Finish the Cup: Constructors and Classes
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Constructors and
new - Why Classes in JavaScript?
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Classes with
class - Object Methods
- Why Not Classes?
- Summary
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Constructors and
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Recipes with Constructors and Classes
- Bound
- Send
- Invoke
- Fluent
- Colourful Mugs: Symmetry, Colour, and Charm
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Con Panna: Composing Class Behaviour
- Extending Classes with Mixins
- Functional Mixins
- Emulating Multiple Inheritance
- Preventing Property Conflicts
- Reducing Coupling
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More Decorators
- Stateful Method Decorators
- Class Decorators beyond ES6/ECMAScript 2015
- Method Decorators beyond ES6/ECMAScript 2015
- Lightweight Traits
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More Decorator Recipes
- After Method Advice
- Before Method Advice
- Provided and Unless
- Method Advice
- Closing Time at the Coffeeshop: Final Remarks
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The Golden Crema: Appendices and Afterwords
- How to run the examples
- Thanks!
- Reading JavaScript Allongé on Kindle
- Copyright Notice
- About The Author
- Notes
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