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Published inJan 2020
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James Padolsey
James Padolsey
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James Padolsey

James Padolsey is a passionate JavaScript and UI engineer with over 12 years' experience. James began his journey into JavaScript as a teenager, teaching himself how to build websites for school and small freelance projects. In the early years, he was a prolific blogger, sharing his unique solutions to common problems in the domains of jQuery, JavaScript, and the DOM. He later contributed to the jQuery library itself and authored a chapter within the jQuery Cookbook published by O'Reilly Media. Over subsequent years, James has been exposed to many unique software projects in his employment at Stripe, Twitter, and Facebook, informing his philosophy on what clean coding truly means in the ever-changing ecosystem of JavaScript.
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In this chapter, we covered a vast amount of theory and practical skills. We covered the LoD (or principle of least information), all SOLID principles, the principle of abstraction, and a couple of key principles from the paradigm of functional programming. Even if you don't remember all of the names, you will hopefully remember the underlying knowledge and key lessons that each principle encapsulates.

Programming is as much an art as it is a science. It involves balancing all of these principles in the pursuit of crafting truly balanced abstractions. None of these principles should be considered hard-and-fast rules. They are merely guidelines that will help us on our journey.

In the next chapter, we continue this journey by exploring one of the most challenging aspects of programming, both in JavaScript and outside it: the problem of naming things.

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Published in: Jan 2020Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781789957648

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James Padolsey

James Padolsey is a passionate JavaScript and UI engineer with over 12 years' experience. James began his journey into JavaScript as a teenager, teaching himself how to build websites for school and small freelance projects. In the early years, he was a prolific blogger, sharing his unique solutions to common problems in the domains of jQuery, JavaScript, and the DOM. He later contributed to the jQuery library itself and authored a chapter within the jQuery Cookbook published by O'Reilly Media. Over subsequent years, James has been exposed to many unique software projects in his employment at Stripe, Twitter, and Facebook, informing his philosophy on what clean coding truly means in the ever-changing ecosystem of JavaScript.
Read more about James Padolsey