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Modular Programming with JavaScript

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Modular Programming with JavaScript

Overview of this book

Programming in the modular manner is always encouraged for bigger systems—it is easier to achieve scalability with modular programming. Even JavaScript developers are now interested in building programs in a modular pattern. Modules help people who aren’t yet familiar with code to find what they are looking for and also makes it easier for programmers to keep things that are related close together. Designing and implementing applications in a modular manner is highly encouraged and desirable in both simple and enterprise level applications. This book covers some real-life examples of modules and how we can translate that into our world of programming and application design. After getting an overview of JavaScript object-oriented programming (OOP) concepts and their practical usage, you should be able to write your own object definitions using the module pattern. You will then learn to design and augment modules and will explore the concepts of cloning, inheritance, sub-modules, and code extensibility. You will also learn about SandBoxing, application design, and architecture based on modular design concepts. Become familiar with AMD and CommonJS utilities. By the end of the book, you will be able to build spectacular modular applications in JavaScript.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Modular Programming with JavaScript
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
2
Review of Important JavaScript OOP Concepts
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we tried to get an overview of the concepts behind modular programming in general and how such concepts can be used in JavaScript applications in particular.

We saw that this approach is essentially based on creating packages of specialized code that do very specific tasks.

We also made parallels between how modules are designed in real life and our application modules, so that we can translate the similarities into our own application design approach.

While the term "module" can be used to refer to different things in the code, we will take this terminology to refer to a certain style of programming and architecture in our JavaScript application design approach in later chapters.

However, before we completely dive into the more technical aspects of JavaScript modular programming, it is a good idea to review the fundamentals of object-oriented programming in JavaScript in the next chapter. This will allow us to establish a solid foundation for more technical chapters as we move forward.