Mastering the Arcane Art of JavaScriptmancy @ DevSum

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. Jaime Gonzalez Enthusiastic Software developer and UX guy! @vintharas Work at Active Solution as a Cimmerian consultant... Blog at barbarianmeetscoding.com
22. https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
26. https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
39. http://bit.ly/js-function-scope
45. 1999 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript 2009
46. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript 2015 1999 2009
47. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript 2015 1999 2009 2016
48. http://bit.ly/ecma262-github
49. http://bit.ly/es6-compatibility
50. https://babeljs.io/
56. barbarian conan red sonja kull
64. Minion.prototype toString function Minion() hp name Properties shared across all minions. Use for Methods Properties stored per instance. Use for data var minion = new Minion()
66. Minion Wizard hp name toString mana element castsSpells toString More Inheritance!
72. Minion
73. Warlock
77. http://bit.ly/js-this-is-nuts
82. fixes the most common issues with the this keyword !! http://bit.ly/es6-arrow-functions
83. let const
85. Coupon here
102. tagName`some template string`
107. http://bit.ly/bmc-es6 http://bit.ly/es6-all http://bit.ly/js-zero-bullshit
109. Tight coupling Single rooted hierarchy Types are often too general to map to real problems Creates Rigid Taxonomies Doesn’t Adapt well to Change
110. Minion Wizard toString castsSpells toString Thief Bard castsSpells steals playsMusic toString steals toString
111. Minion Wizard Thief Bard Minion Wizard Thief Bard
112. Favor composition over inheritance
113. Minion Wizard Thief Bard ISpellCaster IStealer SpellCasting SpellCasting Stealing Stealing
114. Wizard SpellCasting castsSpells castsSpells var merlin = new Wizard(); Merlin.castsSpell(lightningBolt); spellCasting.castsSpell(lightningBolt); ISpellCaster
120. Wizard Thief Bard canCastSpells canBeIdenti... canSteal canBeIdenti... canSteal canBeIdenti... canCastSpells
121. Wizard Thief Bard canCastSpells canBeIdenti... canSteal canBeIdenti... canSteal canBeIdenti... canCastSpells canBePositioned canBePositioned canBePositioned
124. http://bit.ly/javascript-oop
134. Call N times
135. Call N times
136. Call once Call N times More Specific
137. Call once Maybe + Call once maybe
138. Call twice After + Call twice maybe and send notification Send notif. Maybe +
139. http://bit.ly/javascriptmancy-fp-create-abstractions
143. http://bit.ly/promisees
150. Editor Land Browser Land