Learning JavaScript Design Patterns: A JavaScript and jQuery Developer’s Guide

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, MVPand MVVM—are useful from the perspective of a modern web application developer. This book also walks experienced JavaScript developers 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 behavioural
• Walk through more than 20 classical and modern design patterns in JavaScript
• Use several options for writing modular code—including the Module pattern, Asynchronous Module Definition (AMD)and CommonJS
• Discover design patterns implemented in the jQuery library
• Learn popular design patterns for writing maintainable jQuery plug-ins