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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


As was noted in the beginning of this chapter, we had a good overview of the architectural concepts related to the modular implementation of our application.

We discussed the main pieces of the application and saw how they come together to create a cohesive ecosystem.

We also examined the specific roles that the pieces play in the overall application design and looked at how we can create a good separation of responsibilities and concerns among our modules and components.

One of the important aspects that we focused on was to loosely couple our various application pieces together, which allows for ease of maintainability as well as future extensibility.

While some application code was shown in the chapter, we did not get deeply involved in analyzing the code and the application implementation. This is exactly what we will cover in the next chapter, where we will have a closer look at how things are done under the hood.