Mixins, Forwarding, and Delegation in JavaScript

http://raganwald.com/2014/04/10/mixins-forwarding-delegation.html

by johanbrook • 12 years ago

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sfeng• 12 years ago

Particularly if you use coffeescript, mixen can be a more capable option: http://github.hubspot.com/mixen/

mxxx• 12 years ago

Nice and comprehensive article, cheers for the share.

drderidder• 12 years ago

Really insightful write-up but after reading through those code contortions it made me just want to stick with prototypal inheritance. If you have to go to those lengths to get your code to work, it seems like maybe you're doing it wrong, or using the wrong language...

peterashford• 12 years ago

Very my much impression. What you can abuse JS to do is impressive and I would never ever want to maintain a codebase that used these tricks.

ephemeralgomi• 12 years ago

These aren't "tricks" or "abuse". They're design patterns.

greggman• 12 years ago

I had the opposite reaction. For me this is why I love JavaScript. It makes things I want to do in C++, C#, etc simple and easy.

Meta-programming is almost always scary looking regardless of language. But once written well using it is generally easy and I can ignore it and get back to work.

ilcosrn• 12 years ago

You can't avoid dealing with javascript when doing web development. Before you mention something like coffeescript, I have to say first that the mixin, forwarding and delegating code were only several lines long. Compare that to the amount of code used to compile to javascript.

blakehaswell• 12 years ago

Agreed. Generally I would argue against combining data and behaviour, for the very same reasons that the author wrote these abstractions.

However, I think there are better methods available. For example I would much prefer to organise related behaviour using Node modules (using Browserify if it’s a client app), which give you an extremely understandable way to group related behaviour AND hide private state.

jdlshore• 12 years ago

Big improvement over the last one [1]. I learned some things. Looking forward to seeing the next one.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7496968

enowbi• 12 years ago

angularjs please

ifandelse• 12 years ago

Loved the post. Very nice & deliberate walk through of the various approaches.

Mixins, Forwarding, and Delegation in JavaScript

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