No matter how much experience you have with Java Script odds are you don't fully understand the language This concise in-depth guide takes you inside Java Script's this structure & object prototypes You'll learn how they work & why they're integral to behavior delegation
- a design pattern in which objects are linked rather than cloned Like other books in the You Don't Know JS series this & Object Prototypes dives into trickier parts of the language that many Java Script programmers simply avoid Armed with this knowledge you can become a true Java Script master With this book you will Explore how the this binding points to objects based on how the function is called Look into the nature of JS objects & why you'd need to point to them Learn how developers use the mixin pattern to fake classes in JS Examine how JS's prototype mechanism forms links between objects Learn how to move from classinheritance design to behavior delegation Understand how the OLOO (objects-linked-to-other-objects) coding style naturally implements behavior delegation