Sugar augments the existing JavaScript environment with helper methods on existing objects. From fixing broken support of standard methods, widening acceptable arguments, multi-lingual and improved regex support on strings, nice supplementary string methods like words()
, and shortcut methods to Math object methods. Additional helpers for Dates, Objects, Functions and Regex. An library for a consistentising JavaScript across different imlementations.
Based on Simon Willison's original 2005 eTech talk, Simon expands this into a full article covering the expressive functionality of JavaScript. He covers the basics of JavaScript: literals, variables, functions, scope, control flow, objects, classes, inner functions and closures. Everything a developer needs to know before diving into more advanced JavaScript.
An evolt article that covers using Regular Expressions, including the difference between static and dynamic regular expressions (compiled at compile time or runtime respectively). Good selection of tables such as regex modifiers, patterns and escaping, look ahead, backreferences. Includes a short section on usage. A neat short cheatsheet for starting to use regular expressions.
First in a series of talks from Douglas Crockford about the JavaScript language. These talks cover the JavaScript language, from the history, the language, advanced features, platforms, standards and programming style. Talks about inheritance, using functions to build objects, closures, as well as the basic JavaScript syntax. Also covers code conventions. JavaScript is a language that requires discipline.