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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

Summary

In this chapter, we focused on building a frontend architecture and adding frontend features to our existing project. Similar to the definition of server-side architecture in Chapter 7, in this chapter, we had to define the goals behind the frontend features, focusing on what developers would like to do with our full stack framework. We have covered the topics of defining entry points for client routes, concepts of reactivity, complex component structures, SSR, routing, optimizations, and so on. The frontend feature set can be overwhelming, with a lot of terminology, and there is much more to learn beyond this chapter.

If we combine all the components that we have architected in the past several chapters, we now end up with a framework consisting of three use cases that combine into a larger full stack narrative. So far, we have seen a JavaScript testing framework, a backend framework, and finally, a frontend framework under the same logical namespace.

In the next chapter...