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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

Chapter 8. Application Implementation – Putting It All Together

After discussing the architectural concepts of our modular design in the previous chapter, it is time for us to look at the actual implementation.

The goal of this chapter is to examine the code and see how all the pieces fit and work together in a real application.

While we will not discuss every aspect of the code, each main piece will be broken down into smaller pieces, and most of the details will be explained.

I highly recommend that you download the project code related to this chapter from the site accompanying this book and follow along as we go through the finer points of the code. I am using different techniques at different parts of the code, which at first glance, might look inconsistent. However, this is done intentionally so that you can see how different techniques can be applied as needed, in different contexts.

Also, keep in mind that many aspects of the application can be improved upon as the focus has been on...