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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

The development cycle

To better understand the framework maintenance tasks, we will rely on the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to partition some of the important milestones of our framework development, such as building features and releasing them for your stakeholders. Our goal is to take the broad themes of SDLC and apply them to our framework projects, focusing on specific examples that will help you build better projects.

Figure 9.1: The software development life cycle

Figure 9.1: The software development life cycle

Figure 9.1 shows a simplified diagram of the SDLC, which we can apply to our framework projects. In this book, we have performed these steps in detail, except we need to focus further on the Deployment and Maintenance steps to complete the cycle. We have taken care of the first Analysis step by learning about the organization of other frameworks and planning out each large portion of the Componium full stack framework. We have performed useful examinations of the existing abstractions...