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Building Your Own JavaScript Framework

By : Vlad Filippov
Book Image

Building Your Own JavaScript Framework

By: Vlad Filippov

Overview of this book

JavaScript frameworks play an essential role in web application development; however, no single framework works perfectly for all projects. This book will help you understand existing projects, design new software architecture, and maintain projects as they grow. You’ll go through software architecture principles with JavaScript, along with a guided example of structuring your project and maintenance guidance. This book covers framework planning aspects, enabling you to identify key stakeholders, understand JavaScript API design, and leverage complex abstraction. The second part of the book takes a practical programming approach to building your own framework by showing you how to structure modules and interfaces. As you advance, you’ll discover how to develop data-binding components, work with JavaScript APIs, and much more. While writing a framework is half the job, continuing to develop it requires effort from everyone involved. The concluding chapters help to achieve this by teaching you the crucial aspects of software maintenance and highlighting the constants of framework development. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a clear understanding of the JavaScript framework landscape, along with the ability to build frameworks for your use cases.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Part 1: The Landscape of JavaScript Frameworks
6
Part 2: Framework Development
11
Part 3: Maintaining Your Project

Architecting Frontend Frameworks

In this chapter, we now switch focus to the frontend components of the full stack framework that we began building in Chapter 7. This is the final part of adding new features and architecting the technical design for the purposes of our Componium framework example. The frontend features are the most complex to design because they require a lot of domain knowledge of browsers, in-depth JavaScript, the ability to handle complex edge cases, and so on. We will cover a series of frontend topics that focus on enabling a full stack framework development environment. Here are some of the topics that we will cover:

  • Frontend features: We will determine the features and goals of the frontend components for our framework. In addition, this new frontend infrastructure needs to interact with the existing components of the full stack framework, such as the backend API routes and the testing interfaces.
  • Architectural design: After learning more about the...