Learning JavaScript Design Patterns

With Learning JavaScript Design Patterns, you’ll learn how to write beautiful, structured, and maintainable JavaScript by applying classical and modern design patterns to the language. If you want to keep your code efficient, more manageable, and up-to-date with the latest best practices, this book is for you.

Explore many popular design patterns, including Modules, Observers, Facades, and Mediators. Learn how modern architectural patterns—such as MVC, MVP, and MVVM—are useful from the perspective of a modern web application developer. This book also walks you through modern module formats, how to namespace code effectively, and other essential topics.

• Learn the structure of design patterns and how they are written
• Understand different pattern categories, including creational, structural, and behavioral
• Walk through more than 20 classical and modern design patterns in JavaScript
• Use several options for writing modular code—including the Module pattern, Asyncronous Module Definition (AMD), and CommonJS
• Discover design patterns implemented in the jQuery library
• Learn popular design patterns for writing maintainable jQuery plug-ins

"This book should be in every JavaScript developer’s hands. It’s the go-to book on JavaScript patterns that will be read and referenced many times in the future." —Andree Hansson, Lead Front-End Developer, presis!

Addy Osmani is a Developer Programs Engineer on the Chrome team at Google with a passion for JavaScript application architecture. He has created popular projects such as TodoMVC and contributed to other open-source projects such as Modernizr and jQuery. A regular blogger, his articles have been featured numerous times in JavaScript Weekly and Smashing Magazine, to name but a few. His current projects include Yeoman - an opionated workflow for modern web developers, Backbone Aura and jQuery UI Bootstrap. Addy maintains his popular blog on web development at http://addyosmani.com for those wishing to learn more about his work.