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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

Application functionality


As you may recall, our application was intended to be an image gallery-type application which displays a list of images. Users are able to interact with the application in a variety of different ways. While the application might seem very simple from a user's point of view, it is designed from the ground up, to be easily extensible, so more functionality can be added to it as needed.

Let's consider the various aspects of our application's functionality.

Index page

The main page of the application (index.html) consists of three main components: header, footer, and content.

These components build the header, footer, and content sections (page fragments) of the main page respectively, as shown in the previous screenshot.

Since we designed our application as a Single Page Application (SPA), navigation to different pages of the application only updates the view of the content area.

The footer and header sections of the application are rendered only once, and that is at the...