Object-Oriented JavaScript: Create scalable, reusable high-quality JavaScript applications and libraries
On May - 26 - 20105 COMMENTS
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Once listed in the “nice to have” sections of job postings, these days the knowledge of JavaScript is a deciding factor when it comes to hiring web developers. And rightly so. Where in the past we used to have the occasional few lines of JavaScript embedded in a web page, now we have advanced libraries and extensible architectures, powering the “fat-client”, AJAX-type rich internet applications. JavaScript is the language of the browser, but it’s also heavily emp… More >>
I am a PHP and MySQL web developer and I have always resisted using Javascript in my projects. So I have kept my Javascript knowledge to minimum.
But there are times when you simply can’t avoid JavaScript, so I decided to take my JS programming to the next level. After reading this book I have certainly learned a lot more, but it did not change my opinion about this language. I still HATE this language and the idea of using Javascript as a serious Object Oriented Programming is nothing but a JOKE.
It made me appreciate the PHP and its Object Oriented paradigm.
I can’t wait for a day when HTML5 and CSS3 are implemented in all modern browsers so I can kiss Javascript Goodbye forever. In the meantime I have no choice but to use this ugly language.
Rating: 4 / 5
I bought this book along with JavaScript: The good parts by Douglas Crockford. Whereas the Crockford book is light, easy, compact and beautiful, this book is too long, too ‘for dummies’, too ‘cookbook’ and just too wrong in its approach to the central parts of JavaScript, namely functions, objects, prototype and inheritance. In touching those concepts in 4 homonymous chapters it demonstrates silly use cases through certainly improvable so-called ‘patterns’, explains things in a way only to backtrack and say something along the lines of ‘but wait! we were wrong!’, examples are repeated three, four and more times to show the same situation, calling the same function with different parameters, filling the page with purposeless drivel and white space; everything important about JavaScript is too convoluted to make any sense because if you don’t understand a language you shouldn’t write about it. If this was the only book I had about JS I would hate the language, for two reasons: first, qualitative, the exposition of central concepts is poor, unsophisticated and overly complicated. Second, quantitative, the book is exceedingly verbose, for example listing every method the basic objects have, and painfully going over each with too many examples. Of course, you have handy appendices where all of it will be repeated again, once more. This information can be looked up online with less cruft on it and the book would have 200 pages less, cost less, kill less trees and give me less of a headache. The remaining chapters (7 onwards), from page 205 till 330, 38% of the book, refer to DOM and BOM and are completely off-topic in a book with this title. In two words: Misleading and expendable. To summarise: If you only read this book you will code awful JavaScript and other (good) JavaScript coders will not love you. I hope you find a better book (hint: read my first sentences again)
Rating: 1 / 5
A very great book to get insights on Javascript, common design patterns.
Well written, loaded with examples, clear, a very useful book.
Rating: 5 / 5
Objective with good examples and explaining lots of concepts every Javascript programmers should know. Helped me a lot in designing my ExtJS web development too. I really recommend this book.
Rating: 5 / 5
I really enjoyed this book. It is concise and pithy. Although I’ve been writing/hacking JavaScript for a while now, I still learned a lot from reading this. Missing are the usual long code examples copied from the authors pet projects that only serves to build bulk divert one’s attention.
I read and enjoyed every word in this book, and I will be rereading some of it.
Rating: 5 / 5