A fresh look at JavaScript Mixins

Posted: May 03, 2013 Comments

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You likely heard about mixins first from your CSS preprocessor, but this article takes some time to outline the application to JavaScript. One of the things I like most about JavaScript is the additional challenge of making your code as lean as possible. While minifiers and other compression techniques help that on a machine level, there’s still a ton that depends on the approach of the code itself. It’s a challenge to find the balance between compression and code readability when it comes to JavaScript, and mixins seem to provide another layer of that.

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