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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 have continued to explore the innards of JavaScript, covering the dynamic nature of the language. We've seen how we can go about detecting various types and the nuanced intricacies of coercion and casting. These topics are difficult to pick up, but they will be useful. Many anti-patterns that appear in JavaScript code come down to fundamental misunderstandings of language constructs and mechanisms, so having a deep understanding of these topics will aid our ambition of writing clean code tremendously.

In the next chapter, we will continue our exploration of types by exploring JavaScript's operators. It's likely that you will already have a very good knowledge of many of these, but thanks to JavaScript's dynamic nature, their usage can sometimes yield unexpected results. For this reason, the next chapter dedicates itself fully to...

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

Author (1)

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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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