Modular JavaScript: Practical Modern JavaScript

by Nicolas Bevacqua

Ideal for professional software developers with a basic understanding of JavaScript, this practical book shows you how to build small, interconnected ES6 JavaScript modules that emphasize reusability. You'll learn how to face a project with a modular mindset, and how to organize your applications into simple pieces that work well in isolation and can be combined to create a large, robust application.

This book focuses on two aspects of JavaScript development: modularity and ES6 features. You ll learn how to tackle application development by following a scale-out approach. As pieces of your codebase grow too big, you can break them up into smaller modules.

Genres: Programming, Technology

332 pages, Paperback

Published August 15, 2017

About the author

Nicolas Bevacqua is a software developer with a focus on modular JavaScript, build processes, and sharp design. He maintains a blog at ponyfoo.com.

Reviews

[Victor · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good writeup on the new es6 features. I agree with his perspective in the last chapter where he says that not every language feature is good in every use case. We got to be sensible in how we code, and at the end of the day it's about readability rather than making use of new language features.

[Chris · Rating 2 out of 5]

More comprehensive and less practical than I'd hoped. Might have done better to start with the last chapter ("Practical Considerations") and let that inform what I read closely and what I skipped (e.g., proxies).

[Jevgenij · Rating 3 out of 5]

Most of the principles apply not only to Javascript, but to many other languages as well. What I did not like is that the author was missing high level concepts with low-level (like variable interpolation).

[Adrian Li · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good as a reference book to fill out gaps and let junior devs borrow.