This document discusses various JavaScript design patterns and best practices including:
- Common design patterns like singleton, factory, decorator, and observer.
- Minimizing global variables by declaring variables with a single var statement.
- Hoisting and how it provides access to function and variable declarations.
- Classical inheritance patterns like using the prototype, renting a constructor, and sharing the prototype.
- Defining functions as expressions vs declarations and how hoisting works.
- Using immediate functions to provide scope and execute initialization code.
- Callbacks and how they are used in asynchronous code.