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Thank you to my wife, Bethany, for her love and support while we wrote this book, and for enduring (or enjoying?) many husband-less nights and weekends while I worked to meet a deadline.

– SETH RICHARDS

Thanks to my family for encouraging me to pursue my dreams. My dreams may include writing a book, but they begin and end with you.

– LARRY SPENCER

This book would not have been possible without the willingness of others to share their knowledge and expertise with us and the community at large in book, blog, and source-code format. Together, we'd like to acknowledge and thank:

● Douglas Crockford, for his exposure of good parts of JavaScript and his work on jsLint.

● Nicolas Zakas, for the numerous books and blog posts he wrote that acted as guides through JavaScript's sometimes-treacherous waters, and also his maintenance of and contributions to ESLint.

● Stoyan Stefanov, for his instruction on applying pattern-based development to JavaScript.

● Robert C. Martin, for instilling in us the desire to write clean code.

● Fredrik Appelberg, for his creation of, and Dave Clayton for his contributions to, the AOP.js aspect-oriented programming framework.

● Mike Bostock, for inspiring us with the D3 library for SVG graphics.

● The folks at Pivotal Labs, for the creation of the open-source JavaScript framework Jasmine, and members of the community that have contributed to the framework.

● The AngularJS team, for showing the world a great way to build single-page applications.

● The vast and growing network of generous people on sites such as Stack Overflow and GitHub. Without you, we'd still be thumbing through manuals.

We would also like to express our appreciation to our project editor, Chris Haviland, who deftly maneuvered us through the writing process from beginning to end. Our copy editor, Nancy Rapoport, has read our book more carefully, and more times, than anyone else ever will. For her dedication and suggestions we offer heartfelt thanks. We would also like to express our sincerest thanks to our technical editors, Keith Pepin and John Peloquin. Their JavaScript prowess helped us avoid more than a few technical errors. Should any errors still exist, it's likely because we didn't follow some of their advice. Our hats are off to you, gentlemen.

Finally, we'd like to thank Carol Long, the Executive Acquisitions Editor at Wiley, who gave us the opportunity to write this book. Without her, we'd still just be a couple of guys that write software for a living. We're still that, but now we're authors, too. Carol announced her retirement from the publishing industry just before we finished the book. We sure hope we weren't the straw that broke the camel's back! Thank you, Carol, and we wish you nothing but sunny days and margaritas in your retirement.

– LARRY AND SETH