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Improve Your (JavaScript)Kung Fu & Become Ultimate API Warrior

Improve Your (JavaScript)Kung Fu & Become Ultimate API Warrior

Presented at Santa Cruz JavaScript Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/santacruzjs/events/228475916/

• Do you know that one NaN will never equal to another NaN?
• Have you been trapped by Array’s slice vs splice?
• Aren’t you mad by the tedious DOM API such as initKeyEvent("keypress", true, true,null, null, false, false, false, false, 9, 0)?
• Can you ever figure out the difference between JavaScript’s String functions substring, substr, and slice?

Ariya Hidayat

February 10, 2016
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  1. How to Improve Your (JavaScript) Kung Fu and Become

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  4. Gimli

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  7. [14, 3, 77]
    [14, 3] [77]

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  8. var date = [14, 3, 77]
    var year = a.slice(2, 1)
    year []
    date [14, 3, 77]
    var date = [14, 3, 77]
    var year = a.splice(2, 1)
    year [77]
    date [14, 3]

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  11. https://twitter.com/AriyaHidayat/status/429111596627918848

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  13. Readable, consistent,
    crystal clear

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  16. X1.value = 'Rare';
    X2.value = 'Medium';
    X3.value = 'Well done';
    Y.option = 'Fries';
    Z.caption = 'Order';
    X1.value = 'Rare';
    X2.value = 'Medium';
    X3.value = 'Well done';
    Y.value = 'Fries';
    Z.value = 'Order';

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  17. slider.maxValue = 100;
    slider.minValue = 0;
    slider.value = 34;
    indicator.range = [100, 0];
    indicator.progress = 61;
    slider.maximum = 100;
    slider.minimum = 0;
    slider.value = 34;
    indicator.maximum = 100;
    indicator.minimum = 0;
    indicator.value = 61;

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  18. point.translate(14, -3)
    rect.translateBy(26, 4)
    point.translate(14, -3)
    rect.translate(26, 4)

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  19. corner = new Point(10, 10);
    dim = new Size(70, 50);
    R = new Rect(corner, dim);
    Q = new Rect(10, 10, 80, 60);
    corner = new Point(10, 10);
    dim = new Size(70, 50);
    R = new Rect(corner, dim);
    Q = new Rect(10, 10, 70, 50);
    x1, y1, x2, y2 x, y, w, h

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  20. var x = Math.sqrt(-2)
    isNaN(x) true
    x === NaN false
    isNaN('hola') true
    x == NaN false

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  24. What’s in a name?
    that which we call a rose
    by any other name
    would smell as sweet...

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  26. event.initKeyEvent("keypress", true, true,
    null, null, false, false, false, false, 9, 0);

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  27. // Horizontal
    s1 = new Slider(true);
    // Vertical
    s2 = new Slider(false);
    s1 = new Slider({
    orientation: 'horizontal'
    });
    s2 = new Slider({
    orientation: 'vertical'
    });

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  28. // Animate the resize
    w.resize(250, 150, true);
    // Do not animate the resize
    w.resize(250, 150, false);
    w.resize(250, 150, {
    animate: true
    });

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  29. // Expand + animate
    treeItem.setState(true, true);
    // Expand + don't animate
    treeItem.setState(true, false);
    // Collapse + animate
    treeItem.setState(false, true);

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  30. https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/367485612627984385

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  32. X.disabled = false;
    Y.setHidden(true);
    filter.caseInsensitive = true;
    X.enabled = true;
    Y.setVisible(false);
    filter.caseSensitive = false;

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  33. cube.translucency = 0.2;
    20% translucent
    cube.opacity = 0.8;
    80% opaque

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  34. status.message("Ready");
    page.forward();
    page.backward();
    status.showMessage("Ready");
    page.goForward();
    page.goBackward();

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  35. picker.yearFrom = 1980;
    picker.yearTo = 2020;
    picker.minimumYear = 1980;
    picker.maximumYear = 2020;

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  36. this.callMe = "Adam";
    flight.from = SFO;
    flight.to = JFK;
    this.name = "Adam";
    flight.departure = SFO;
    flight.destination = JFK;

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  37. 'scjs-meetup'.substr(5, 6) "meetup"
    'scjs-meetup'.substr(6, 5) "eetup"
    'scjs-meetup'.substring(5, 6) "m"
    'scjs-meetup'.substring(6, 5) "m"
    'scjs-meetup'.slice(5, 6) "m"
    'scjs-meetup'.slice(6, 5) ""

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  38. var a = [14, 3, 77]
    var b = a.slice(1, 2)
    a [14, 3, 77]
    b [3]
    var a = [14, 3, 77]
    var b = a.splice(1, 2)
    a [14]
    b [3, 77]

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  39. var p = new Point(14, 3);
    p.translate(4, 4);
    var s = ' hal9000 ';
    s.trim();

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  40. var p = new Point(14, 3);
    p.translate(4, 4);
    p.translated(4, 4);
    var s = ' hal9000 ';
    s.trim();
    s.trimmed();

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  42. Public = Irreversible

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  45. -- yours truly
    “You’d fail your first
    two attempts anyway.”

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  46. “Write 3 examples which
    use the API”

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  49. “YOU SHALL NOT PASS!”
    — Darth Vader

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  51. Apply static polymorphism
    Audit every shortcut
    Read aloud (and often)

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  52. Your mind is like this water my friend,
    when it is agitated it becomes difficult to see.
    But if you allow it to settle, the answer becomes clear.

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  53. Some artworks are from http://openclipart.org.
    @ariyahidayat

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