This is the code repository for Clean Code in JavaScript, published by Packt.
Develop reliable, maintainable, and robust JavaScript
Building robust apps starts with creating clean code. In this book, you’ll explore techniques for doing this by learning everything from the basics of JavaScript through to the practices of clean code. You’ll write functional, intuitive, and maintainable code while also understanding how your code affects the end user and the wider community.
This book covers the following exciting features:
- Understand the true purpose of code and the problems it solves for your end-users and colleagues
- Discover the tenets and enemies of clean code considering the effects of cultural and syntactic conventions
- Use modern JavaScript syntax and design patterns to craft intuitive abstractions
- Maintain code quality within your team via wise adoption of tooling and advocating best practices
- Learn the modern ecosystem of JavaScript and its challenges like DOM reconciliation and state management
If you feel this book is for you, get your copy today!
All of the code is organized into folders. For example, Chapter19.
The code will look like the following:
function validatePostalCode(code) {
return /^[0-9]{5}(?:-[0-9]{4})?$/.test(code);
}
Following is what you need for this book:
Clean coding is an important skill in the portfolio of any developer willing to write reliable and intuitive code. This book presents principles, patterns, anti-patterns, and practices supported by use cases and directions for writing clean JavaScript code. It helps you refactor your legacy codebase in JavaScript and modernize your web apps.
With the following software and hardware list you can run all code files present in the book (Code is for chapter 19 : CaseStudy).
| Chapter | Software required | OS required |
|---|---|---|
| 19 | Node.js, | Windows |
We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. Click here to download it.
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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