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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

Long-term maintenance

So far in this chapter, we have looked at maintenance tasks that occur as a framework progresses through the development life cycle, covering topics around the initial or following feature updates. However, there are additional unique aspects of framework development that are part of the longer-term upkeep. To focus on a few, we will explore the topics of security, dependency management, evolving feature compatibility, and more.

Security

The approach to web application security has changed in recent years. More tools and solutions are now available in the security space that try to protect the whole development workflow. When users choose a framework to suit their needs, they also have certain security expectations from it, especially if the framework is built for purposes that handle critical data and user input. As you maintain your framework, you can expect to receive security bugs and patches that address security vulnerabilities. The bug bounty programs...