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Clean Code in JavaScript

You're reading from  Clean Code in JavaScript

Product type Book
Published in Jan 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789957648
Pages 548 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
James Padolsey James Padolsey
Profile icon James Padolsey

Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: What is Clean Code Anyway?
2. Setting the Scene 3. The Tenets of Clean Code 4. The Enemies of Clean Code 5. SOLID and Other Principles 6. Naming Things Is Hard 7. Section 2: JavaScript and Its Bits
8. Primitive and Built-In Types 9. Dynamic Typing 10. Operators 11. Parts of Syntax and Scope 12. Control Flow 13. Section 3: Crafting Abstractions
14. Design Patterns 15. Real-World Challenges 16. Section 4: Testing and Tooling
17. The Landscape of Testing 18. Writing Clean Tests 19. Tools for Cleaner Code 20. Section 5: Collaboration and Making Changes
21. Documenting Your Code 22. Other Peoples' Code 23. Communication and Advocacy 24. Case Study 25. Other Books You May Enjoy

The perspective of a designer

To bestow us with the perspective of a designer, let's explore a simple problem. We must construct an abstraction that allows users to give us two strings, a subject string and a query string. We must then calculate a count of the query strings found within the subject string.

So, consider the following query string:

"the"

And have a look at the following subject string:

"the fox jumped over the lazy brown dog"

We should receive a result of 2.

For our purposes as a designer, we care about the experience of those who must use our code. For now, we won't worry about our implementation; we will instead only consider the interface, as it is primarily the interface to our code that will drive our fellow programmers' experiences.

The very first thing we may do as a designer is to define a function with a carefully chosen...

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