New Perspectives On Web Design

By Nicholas Zakas CHAPTER 2 If the first case wasn’t supposed to fall through, then it should end with a statement such as break ...

CHAPTER 2 Writing Maintainable, Future-Friendly Code implementing their own designs due to a lack of on-the-ground, in-the- tren ...

By Nicholas Zakas CHAPTER 2 where to do so. YUI, for example, has several different types of objects available for extending the ...

CHAPTER 2 Writing Maintainable, Future-Friendly Code Scalable JavaScript An approach that I devised for a complete JavaScript ap ...

By Nicholas Zakas CHAPTER 2 Arranging CSS styles into structure, skins, content and other groupings brings order to CSS. See Lou ...

CHAPTER 2 Writing Maintainable, Future-Friendly Code Documentation Documentation is the part of the job that developers like the ...

By Nicholas Zakas CHAPTER 2 That’s why no piece of software should be considered complete with- out accompanying documentation. ...

CHAPTER 2 Writing Maintainable, Future-Friendly Code Design Document Design documents describe the architecture and options avai ...

By Nicholas Zakas CHAPTER 2 Docco^18 : a JavaScript narrative documentation generator. Instead of creating API documentation, t ...

CHAPTER 2 Writing Maintainable, Future-Friendly Code Managing Third-Party Components Unless you’re working on a personal project ...

By Nicholas Zakas CHAPTER 2 Web development has a vibrant open source community with very many third-party components available ...

CHAPTER 2 Writing Maintainable, Future-Friendly Code If a component is updated by a single person and that person is backed by a ...

By Nicholas Zakas CHAPTER 2 When large companies or organizations rely on the component, there is more incentive for its develop ...

CHAPTER 2 Writing Maintainable, Future-Friendly Code foRKing ThiRD-PaRTY CoMPonenTS After you’ve selected some third-party compo ...

By Nicholas Zakas CHAPTER 2 As soon as you fork a component, you condemn yourself to mainte- nance issues in the future. To make ...

CHAPTER 2 Writing Maintainable, Future-Friendly Code Forking third-party components is always a bad idea, so make sure that you ...

By Nicholas Zakas CHAPTER 2 it. I describe legacy code as any code that you inherit from someone else without a formal hand-off. ...

CHAPTER 2 Writing Maintainable, Future-Friendly Code One of the primary tasks of the code maintainer is to eliminate magic from ...

By Nicholas Zakas CHAPTER 2 The combination of code comments and tests helps to bring legacy code under control. Even though pro ...

CHAPTER 2 Writing Maintainable, Future-Friendly Code Something interesting happens in a developer’s mind when given a blank slat ...