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The term “meta” characterizes something that is characteristically self-referential. In terms of programming, meta programming means to program the programming of the program itself. It could be inspecting or modifying the structure of the program, or changing the way things work in the language itself. ES6 introduces a great set of features around meta programming, providing low-level hooks into the code mechanics of the program. In this chapter, we will dig into those features in details and see how meta programming works in JavaScript.
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Grover, D., Kunduru, H.P. (2017). Meta Programming. In: ES6 for Humans. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2623-0_10
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