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Prototypal Inheritance in JavaScript for Modules
The classical design of object in JavaScript may look pretty clumsy. So I prefer the module design propagated so indefatigably by Addy Osmani (addyosmani.com/largescalejavascript/). We keep all the declarations within the function body. Public members placed in the object, which the constructor function returns. It looks much nicer. But, here shows up a problem. Common implementation for inheritance doesn't work on such objects. Let's study how exactly JavaScript instantiates objects and come up
Dependency Injection via Factory
You know, when coupling is not loose, components depend too much on each other. It makes your entire architecture fragile and immobile. You can check how loose the coupling is by making a unit test for a component. If you have no problem substituting dependencies by e.g. mock objects then everything is ok. Let take a model class. It depends on DB connection, here Lib_Db_Adapter_Interface instance. We cannot just create DB adapter instance within model constructor, because it depends on configura
Design by Contract and JS
Design by contract (DbC) is an approach in application design, which originally came from Eiffel, but now widely used on different languages (particularly in Java). In real world one party (supplier) makes an offer for an agreement (business contract) and another one (client) accepts. The same way can be described relations between objects in software engineering. As a declared agreement is accepted by the client object, the last one is expected to keep its rules
