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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

The user's view of our application


If you load index.html file of our project using an IDE which has a built-in web server, you will see the following main page in the browser. This file resides at the root of the application folder.

As you may have noticed, I have made improvements to the look and feel of the application, in comparison to what we had in the previous chapters. I have also done some re-factoring of the code in the project.

I mentioned previously that our application is somewhat responsive based on the browser's view-port. The following screenshot shows the application's index.html page in the Chrome Developer Tools emulator (Ctrl + Shift + M in Windows), simulating its rendering in an Apple iPad: