Room51 Technical Documentation

JavaScript

Examples

• Closures: A run through of some common examples of closures in the wild.
• Closure Conundrum 1: Investigating seemingly mysterious behaviour.
• Closure Conundrum 2: Arguments and loops.
• Closure Conundrum 3: Using our own array to pass arguments to the constructor.
• Closure Conundrum 4: Finale. Objects as parameters.

• Prototypes: Showing how properties are searched for in a chain and how objects can 'inherit' from others.
• Prototypes - Placement: How prototypes and constructors interact.
• ProtoMart: A tale of prototypes.
• Object.beget(): Douglas Crockford's method.

• Timers: Trying to show the difference between a central timer and individual timers for many objects.

• Anonymous Function Recursion: How an anonymous function can refer to itself.

• Pre-filling Function Arguments: Simplify your API. Mmmm naan.

External References

• Closures: In depth description from jibbering.com.
• Scoping ananymous functions: from dustindiaz.com.
• Object Model: from mozilla.org.