Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, Second Edition

Part 3. Digging into objects and fortifying your code

Now that you’ve learned the ins and outs of functions, we’ll continue our exploration of JavaScript by taking a closer look at object fundamentals in chapter 7.

In chapter 8, we’ll study how to control access to and monitor our objects with getters and setters, and with proxies, a completely new type of object in JavaScript.

We’ll take a look at collections in chapter 9—traditional ones such as arrays, as well as completely new types such as maps and sets.

From there, we’ll move on to regular expressions in chapter 10. You’ll learn that many tasks that used to take reams of code to accomplish can be condensed to a mere handful of statements through the proper use of JavaScript regular expressions. ...