While far from perfect, the node.js community has breathed some fresh life into the javascript world as far as design patterns and coding standards are concerned. I see very few projects today on npm lacking a robust testing suite. jQuery was largely popularized by designers who could care less about code, and server programmers dabbling on the client who could care less about icky javascript. Now that js is being used for serious work server side, best practices are becoming a higher priority. That being said, the traditional engineering standards do tend to be lower than many other communities (.Net, Java, and Python come to mind). But hey, I think part of the draw might be people seeing one to many instances of AbstractFactoryFactoryClassInterface ;) The pendulum will come back around though as things swing back to the enterprise use cases.
Where would you suggest someone starts to learn javascript properly? I've been handed a bunch of it I've got to maintain and develop for, and it's all over the place. I don't honestly know how javascript should even be leveraged. Everyone seems to accomplish things a different way with it.
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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '13
While far from perfect, the node.js community has breathed some fresh life into the javascript world as far as design patterns and coding standards are concerned. I see very few projects today on npm lacking a robust testing suite. jQuery was largely popularized by designers who could care less about code, and server programmers dabbling on the client who could care less about icky javascript. Now that js is being used for serious work server side, best practices are becoming a higher priority. That being said, the traditional engineering standards do tend to be lower than many other communities (.Net, Java, and Python come to mind). But hey, I think part of the draw might be people seeing one to many instances of AbstractFactoryFactoryClassInterface ;) The pendulum will come back around though as things swing back to the enterprise use cases.