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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

Framework Maintenance

In our framework development journey, we have reached the point where we can discuss framework maintenance in detail. So far, we have completed an initial version of the full stack framework in the previous chapters.

In this chapter, the framework maintenance topics will guide you toward future frameworks to develop. These are the topics related to the framework release process, the continuous development cycles, and, finally, the long-term maintenance of large framework projects. In more detail about framework maintenance, we shall learn about the following:

  • Development cycle: We’ll learn about the concepts and paradigms that help develop formal feature definitions and figure out how to seek framework user feedback. First, we shall recap the analysis and design steps of the framework development process. Then, we’ll move on to formal feature definitions, as well as ways to seek user feedback and keep these users informed about changes...