Mastering the Arcane Art of JavaScript-mancy

For many years has JavaScript been frown upon and look down on by many developers due to its quirky nature, obscure behaviors and many a one WTFs that populate its hairy APIs.

Frown upon no more! For with modern design patterns, libraries, tools and the long awaited JavaScript 6 Harmony (ES6, ES2015) writing JavaScript is now a pleasure.

Join me at the school of JavaScript-mancy as we travel along the modern landscape of writing JavaScript in 2015 and beyond, as we discover the organic evolution of this beautiful language and its thriving ecosystem, and delve in the latest features/spells/incantations of the JavaScript Arcana.

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2. Enthusiastic Software developer!
   Works at Active Solution as a ninja consultant...
   ... but also started jaimegonzalezgarcia.com
   Blogs at barbarianmeetscoding.com
   likes...
   fantasy
   sci-fi
   drawing
   Malin ???
   @vintharas
   

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38. Use preferably
    named function expressions
    and function declarations
    

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63. fixes the most common
    issues with the this
    keyword !!
    

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71. Simple but:
    no data privacy
    

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73. Constructor: data privacy
    Prototype: code reuse
    BUT forgetting to use new
    on a ctor fn causes mayhem
    

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76. Classical Inheritance
    Tight coupling
    Single rooted hierarchy
    Types are often too general to map to real problems
    

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77. Favor composition over
    inheritance
    with less code than in C#
    (true composition vs delegation)
    

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80. BUT wait!
    There’s more!!
    (on the interwebz) fiuuu
    

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100. https://github.com/gios/generator-babel
     

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