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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

Technical requirements

The technical requirements for this chapter are very similar to those for Chapter 7. This chapter reuses the framework files that we saw in Chapter 7 with frontend components and interfaces. The sample application in the tests directory is also changed to showcase some of the frontend features. Locate the book’s repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Building-Your-Own-JavaScript-Framework, and continue to use the code in the chapter7 directory.

Follow the README.md instructions in the directory for available scripts. The sample app can be found in the tests/sample directory of the framework. When you start that application, it will be available on port 9000. You can open it with a browser using the http://localhost:9000/ URL. While you are jumping into exploring the chapter code base, it is recommended to use the debugging tools to trace how the elements come together. Refer to the Debugging section of Chapter 2 to configure a debuggable environment...