It’s time we talk about Object Oriented JavaScript
and why we need it more than ever
Front end technology, especially JavaScript, has historically been looked down upon by back end veterans as not being a proper language. Mostly because JavaScript started off as function based language — making it immature in the ways of potential growth and what it can do.
I remember back in the late 90s and early 2000s when JavaScript was mainly used for making html pages slightly more dynamic. Sometimes it would put a few visual features here and there.
Nowadays, there are entire frameworks, libraries and even back end systems running on JavaScript. Making a native mobile and desktop app with JavaScript was unheard off — but nowadays, it’s as common, if not more popular, than Java itself — complete with cross platform support.
JavaScript is everywhere. It’s easy to get your hands dirty with JavaScript and make something useful with it. But with ease comes potential long term issues. A lot of JavaScript programmers aren’t trained in the ways of object oriented programming. It’s not their fault, not really. Sometimes, we just get caught up in trying to get things work. Sometimes, we just don’t know what we don’t know.
