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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

Architecture

With the required features outlined and documented, let us extend the existing architecture from Chapter 7. The changes will be adding new functionality to the framework architecture, concentrating on enabling the ClientView abstractions and functionality, which will drive the feature experience behind the frontend changes.

We already have the capability to create server API endpoints. The general implementation of the architecture of the features will consist of introducing several new interfaces to the server part of the framework. The newly added frontend features will be situated in the frontend directory of the framework project.

Figure 8.2: Componium frontend components

Figure 8.2: Componium frontend components

In Figure 8.2, we outline an incoming request to the server powered by the Componium server framework. Specifically, this request is expected to respond with an HTML page to provide interactivity features. This is unlike the API requests from Chapter 7, where we would...