Table of Contents

Foreword by Cody Lindley
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Primitive and Reference Types
Chapter 2: Functions
Chapter 3: Understanding Objects
Chapter 4: Constructors and Prototypes
Chapter 5: Inheritance
Chapter 6: Object Patterns
Index

About the Author

Nicholas C. Zakas is a software engineer at Box and is known for writing on and speaking about the latest in JavaScript best practices. He honed his experience during his five years at Yahoo!, where he was principal front-end engineer for the Yahoo! home page. He is the author of several books, including Maintainable JavaScript (O'Reilly Media, 2012) and Professional JavaScript for Web Developers (Wrox, 2012).

Reviews

"Completely changes my understanding of JavaScript...The best part of the book is its concise nature and the way it explains concepts."
—Javin Paul, Java Revisited