Free Chapter: “Coding and Design Patterns” from Stoyan Stefanov’s Object-Oriented JavaScript

September 26, 2008 at 7:29 am by Eric Miraglia | In Development | 7 Comments

Stoyan Stefanov is a member of Yahoo’s Exceptional Performance team; he’s worked on a variety of performance-related projects at Yahoo, including the popular YSlow plugin for Firebug. He’s also a contributing author here on YUIBlog.

Stoyan’s latest project is Object Oriented JavaScript, a new book from Packt whose simple goal is to help you learn how to “think in JavaScript.” Stoyan and his editors were kind enough to let us share with you Chapter 8 from OOJS — “Coding and Design Patterns.”

Chapter 8 from Object Oriented JavaScript by Stoyan Stefanov: “Coding and Design Patterns” (1.8MB PDF)

Among the coding patterns explored in this chapter:

Separating behavior
Namespaces
Init-time branching
Lazy deﬁnition
Conﬁguration objects
Private variables and methods
Privileged methods
Private functions as public methods
Self-executable functions
Chaining
JSON

Design patterns include:

Singleton
Factory
Decorator
Observer

The sample chapter is an excellent standalone resource, but the full volume is outstanding as well. Our thanks to Stoyan and his editors for allowing us to freely share the coding and design patterns content here.

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Pingback by phpied.com » Blog Archive » OOJS book free chapter 8 on YUIblog — September 26, 2008 #
On page 285:
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Should probably be:
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Comment by matt — September 26, 2008 #
Ha, nice catch, thanks very much, Matt!

Comment by Stoyan — September 27, 2008 #
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Pingback by rascunho » Blog Archive » links for 2008-10-02 — October 2, 2008 #
Thanks for the chapter, I read a lot of it and bookmarked it for reference. Thanks!

Comment by Jim — October 14, 2008 #

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