In this insightful and comprehensive guide, Addy Osmani shares more than a decade of experience working on the Chrome team at Google, uncovering secrets to engineering effectiveness, efficiency, and team success.
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This author focuses on the theme of web speed and its optimization. Their work explores the technical aspects and importance of efficient performance in the digital realm. The goal is to contribute to a faster and smoother user experience on the internet.





- 2024
- 2023
Learning JavaScript Design Patterns
A JavaScript and React Developer's Guide
- 286 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Do you want to write beautiful, structured, and maintainable JavaScript by applying classical and modern design patterns to the language? Do you want clean, efficient, manageable code? Want to stay up-to-date with the latest best practices? If so, the updated second edition of Learning JavaScript Design Patterns is the ideal place to start. Author Addy Osmani shows you how to apply both classical and modern design patterns to JavaScript. That includes popular design patterns including Modules, Observers, Facades, and Mediators. You'll also learn how modern architectural patterns--such as MVC, MVP, and MVVM--are useful from the perspective of a modern web application developer. Other essential topics include modern JavaScript syntax, React patterns (like Hooks), module formats, classes, async/await, and more. This book explores: How to structure and write design patterns Different pattern categories, including creational, structural, and behavioral More than 20 classical and modern design patterns in JavaScript "Pattern"-ity testing, proto-patterns, and the Rule of Three Options for writing modular code--including the Module pattern, Asynchronous Module Definition (AMD), and CommonJS Patterns to architect components and apps using React.js
- 2013
Developing Backbone.js Applications
- 354 pages
- 13 hours of reading
If you’re looking to use the single-page application model to build your site’s frontend, Backbone.js is an ideal framework for the job. This practical guide provides all the information you need to create structured JavaScript applications using Backbone.js and its unique flavor of the model-view-controller (MVC) architecture. You’ll start with the essentials of Backbone’s models, views, collections, and routers, and then dive into methods for building RESTful applications with modern technology stacks. Author Addy Osmani also demonstrates advanced uses of the framework, as well as ways to conduct unit tests. Learn MVC fundamentals to help you understand the framework Build Backbone apps with Node.js, Express, Mongoose, and MongoDB Create applications with the Ruby, Sinatra, Haml, and MongoDB stack Cleanly wrap units of application code into manageable modules Decouple Backbone with the Mediator and Facade patterns Resolve routing problems between Backbone and jQuery Mobile Unit test Backbone apps with Jasmine or QUnit and SinonJS
- 2012
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