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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

Defining the frontend framework

We will continue from the previous chapter by reusing the example Componium framework project. In Chapter 7, we created several features that allow us to interact with server-side routes, define APIs, and query a database. Currently, there is no way to develop frontend components to either consume those APIs or add visual interfaces using our framework. Without the frontend part of our framework, a developer needing to build an interactive interface, hosted using a Componium server, would need to include an external library and statically serve additional application files from the server.

Therefore, we will change the lack of frontend features by creating several frontend features that will allow framework users to create client interfaces. These frontend features will mimic some of the complex features of the existing established frontend frameworks. For instance, our approach to reactivity features inside the components will include the basics...