Mastering the Arcane Art of JavaScript-mancy

For many years has JavaScript been frown upon and look down on by many developers due to its quirky nature, obscure behaviors and many a one WTFs that populate its hairy APIs.

Frown upon no more! For with modern design patterns, libraries, tools and the long awaited JavaScript 6 Harmony (ES6, ES2015) writing JavaScript is now a pleasure.

Join me at the school of JavaScript-mancy as we travel along the modern landscape of writing JavaScript in 2015 and beyond, as we discover the organic evolution of this beautiful language and its thriving ecosystem, and delve in the latest features/spells/incantations of the JavaScript Arcana.

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38. Use preferably named function expressions and function declarations
63. fixes the most common issues with the this keyword !!
71. Simple but: no data privacy
73. Constructor: data privacy Prototype: code reuse BUT forgetting to use new on a ctor fn causes mayhem
76. Classical Inheritance Tight coupling Single rooted hierarchy Types are often too general to map to real problems
77. Favor composition over inheritance with less code than in C# (true composition vs delegation)
80. BUT wait! There’s more!! (on the interwebz) fiuuu
100. https://github.com/gios/generator-babel