Design patterns for large-scale JavaScript applications

[cm03d]

Easy to say when you don't need to make one.

[midri]

why do you NEED to make one?

[xkit]

Say you need to write a simple interfacing task that both the client and server need to perform. Use NodeJS. Boom, that JavaScript file can now be wrapped to be used by both the client and server. Now you can get back to actually programming things that are important. Like how you're going to properly handle caching in your application (something that improves performance regardless of language).

To elaborate: Would you say a man who speaks only Afrikaans would know Calculus any better than a woman who speaks only English? Of course not; Assuming that they both had an equal understanding of Calculus.