JavaScript

Chrome/Blink devs discuss setImmediate

Really interesting discussion of the pros and cons of the setImmediate function. For a little backstory checkout this post by Nicholas Zakas (@slicknet) Here's a nice tidbit from one of the Chrome devs: To perform work immediately before the next display - for example

Design Patterns

JavaScript Design Patterns: Factory

Table of Contents Factories encapsulate and separate object creation from the rest of your code. In situations where the creation of an object can be complex or subject to change a factory can act as a nice buffer to help keep things tidy. Without

Design Patterns

JavaScript Design Patterns: Decorator Update

Yesterday's post drew a lot of traffic from Reddit and with it came some really good feedback. If you haven't read the previous post please do so first and then come back here. I want to go through some of what was said so

Design Patterns

JavaScript Design Patterns: Decorator

Table of Contents Update: Part 2 has been posted! A Decorator is an object which adds functionality to another object dynamically. It can be used to enhance the behavior of an object without requiring the author to reopen its class. While Decorators might feel

Design Patterns

JavaScript Design Patterns: Observer

Table of Contents Observer is one of the most popular design patterns and chances are you're probably already using it. If you've ever written an event listener with addEventListener or used one of jQuery's many versions: on, delegate, live, click, etc... then you should

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JavaScript Design Patterns: Iterator

Table of Contents If you're coming from Ruby or Java you probably think of an Iterator as an object which gives you a consistent interface for traversing a collection of some kind. If you're coming from JavaScript or Actionscript you probably just think of

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JavaScript Design Patterns: Singleton

Table of Contents Ah yes the Singleton, a pattern whose name lives in infamy. For the uninitiated a little explanation is in order. A Singleton is an object which can only be instantiated one time. Repeated calls to its constructor return the same instance

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JavaScript Design Patterns: Table of Contents

Creational Abstract Factory Builder Factory Method Object Pool Prototype Singleton Structural Adapter Bridge Composite Decorator Facade Flyweight Private Class Data Proxy Behavioral Chain of Responsibility Command Interpreter Iterator Mediator Memento Null Object Observer State Strategy Template Method Visitor Monad Pattern / Promises I've been trying

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Take Control of your App with the JavaScript State Pattern

Last week I wrote a post about communicating between views in Backbone.js and since then it has easily become my most popular article. The comments have forced me to think about the ways in which I typically manage state in very large Flash