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www.allitebooks.com www.allitebooks.com RELIABLE JAVASCRIPT® INTRODUCTION ................................................... xxi ▸ PART I LAYING A SOLID FOUNDATION CHAPTER 1 Practicing Skillful Software Engineering . .3 CHAPTER 2 Tooling Up . 29 CHAPTER 3 Constructing Reliable Objects . 81 ▸ PART II TESTING PATTERN-BASED CODE CHAPTER 4 Reviewing the Benefits of Patterns . .107 CHAPTER 5 Ensuring Correct Use of the Callback Pattern . 111 CHAPTER 6 Ensuring Correct Use of the Promise Pattern . 129 CHAPTER 7 Ensuring Correct Use of Partial Function Application . 145 CHAPTER 8 Ensuring Correct Use of the Memoization Pattern . 151 CHAPTER 9 Ensuring Correct Implementation of the Singleton Pattern . .161 CHAPTER 10 Ensuring Correct Implementation of the Factory Pattern . .173 CHAPTER 11 Ensuring Correct Implementation and Use of the Sandbox Pattern . .183 CHAPTER 12 Ensuring Correct Implementation of the Decorator Pattern . .205 CHAPTER 13 Ensuring Correct Implementation of the Strategy Pattern . .223 CHAPTER 14 Ensuring Correct Implementation of the Proxy Pattern . 239 CHAPTER 15 Ensuring Correct Implementation of Chainable Methods . .257 ▸ PART III TESTING AND WRITING WITH ADVANCED JAVASCRIPT FEATURES CHAPTER 16 Conforming to Interfaces in an Interface-Free Language . .271 CHAPTER 17 Ensuring Correct Argument Types . 289 CHAPTER 18 Ensuring Correct Use of call, apply, and bind . 311 CHAPTER 19 Ensuring Correct Use of Method‐Borrowing . .335 CHAPTER 20 Ensuring Correct Use of Mixins . .353 CHAPTER 21 Testing Advanced Program Architectures . .383 www.allitebooks.com ▸ PART IV SPECIAL SUBJECTS IN TESTING CHAPTER 22 Testing DOM Access . 413 CHAPTER 23 Ensuring Conformance to Standards . .435 ▸ PART V SUMMARY CHAPTER 24 Summary of the Principles of Test-Driven Development . 465 CHAPTER 25 Summary of JavaScript Idioms in This Book . 475 INDEX ........................................................... 489 www.allitebooks.com Reliable JavaScript® Lawrence D. 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You are making the world a more beautiful place. www.allitebooks.com CrEDITS PrOJECT EDITOR BUSINEss MANAGER Christina Haviland Amy Knies TECHNICAL EDITORS AssOCIATE PUBLISHER Keith Pepin Jim Minatel John Peloquin PrOJECT COORDINATOR, COVER PrODUCTION MANAGER Brent Savage Kathleen Wisor PROOFREADER COPY EDITOR Nancy Carrasco Nancy Rapoport INDEXER MANAGER OF CONTENT DEVELOPMENT Johnna VanHoose Dinse & AssEMBLY Mary Beth Wakefield COVER DESIGNER Wiley MARKETING DIRECTOR David Mayhew COVER IMAGE © Getty Images/Andrew Rich MARKETING MANAGER Carrie Sherrill PrOFEssIONAL TECHNOLOGY & STRATEGY DIRECTOR Barry Pruett www.allitebooks.com ABOUT THE AUTHOrs LArrY SPENCEr is Vice President of Application Development at ScerIS, a software and ser- vices company in Sudbury, Massachusetts. He and his team create browser-based applications in AngularJS, with a C#/Web API/SQL Server back end. Larry’s 35-year career has included stints programming in COBOL, C, C++, C#, and even mainframe assembly language, but he says JavaScript is the most fun. A frequent speaker at Code Camps and other gatherings, Larry enjoys sharing his love of software with the development community. You can find his blog at http:// FascinatedWithSoftware.com. Larry’s outside interests include philosophy, chess, and classical guitar. He lives in Marlborough, Massachusetts. SETH RICHARDs has been crafting software professionally since 2002. He got his start program- ming embedded devices for the bar and nightclub industry and transitioned to web application development in 2007. He has worked on numerous web-based applications ranging from an enterprise-class geographic information system–centric physical asset management system to a social network for product discovery and recommendation. Seth graduated from Plymouth State College (now University) in Plymouth, New Hampshire, where he studied computer science and mathematics. He is currently pursuing his M.S. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Seth’s blog can be found at http://blog .shrichards.com, and he can be followed on Twitter at @shrichards. www.allitebooks.com ABOUT THE TECHNICAL EDITOrs KEITH PEPIN has been developing sites and applications on the web for over 17 years. Early in his career, he fell in love with JavaScript and has been passionately building dynamic user experiences ever since. He is currently a Senior Software Engineer at Meltwater, and is using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, AngularJS, Node.js, and MongoDB to build the next generation of their online market- ing intelligence platform. When not coding or spending time with his family, he enjoys other geeky pursuits, including all forms of games, comic books, painting, and sketching. JOHN PELOQUIN is a software engineer with over 10 years of JavaScript experience ranging across applications of all sizes. John earned his B.A. in Mathematics from U.C. Berkeley and is currently a lead engineer at Spreemo, a healthcare technology startup in NYC. Prior to editing this volume, John edited Professional Website Performance by Peter Smith (Wiley 2012) and Professional JavaScript for Web Developers, 3rd ed. by Nicholas Zakas (Wiley 2012). When he is not coding or collecting errata, John can occasionally be found doing stand-up comedy at an open mic. www.allitebooks.com ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Thank you to my wife, Bethany, for her love and support while we wrote this book, and for endur- ing (or enjoying?) many husband-less nights and weekends while I worked to meet a deadline. –Seth Richards Thanks to my family for encouraging me to pursue my dreams. My dreams may include writing a book, but they begin and end with you. –Larry Spencer This book would not have been possible without the willingness of others to share their knowledge and expertise with us and the community at large in book, blog, and source-code format. Together, we’d like to acknowledge and thank: ➤ Douglas Crockford, for his exposure of good parts of JavaScript and his work on jsLint. ➤ Nicolas Zakas, for the numerous books and blog posts he wrote that acted as guides through JavaScript’s sometimes-treacherous waters, and also his maintenance of and contributions to ESLint. ➤ Stoyan Stefanov, for his instruction on applying pattern-based development to JavaScript. ➤ Robert C. Martin, for instilling in us the desire to write clean code. ➤ Fredrik Appelberg, for his creation of, and Dave Clayton for his contributions to, the AOP.js aspect-oriented programming framework. ➤ Mike Bostock, for inspiring us with the D3 library for SVG graphics.