Third-Party JavaScript

Foreword

You, as a third-party JavaScript developer, have a multitude of concerns you need to manage to ship code across a number of sites and platform combinations. Never before have the details and best practices of making solid distributable JavaScript been codified in such depth as they are in this book. This can be a tricky business, so allow me to illustrate the potential for unintended consequences by telling you a story about Douglas Crockford, who created one of the most widely distributed third-party scripts, and a site called OnlineBootyCall.

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a subset of JavaScript that was codified by Douglas. Back in 2005, he wrote json.js, a small library that could parse JSON into JavaScript objects and stringify ...