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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

Best Practices

Within this final chapter of the book, it is time to wrap up our journey, with several vital topics around general JavaScript framework development, and take a glimpse into the future of frameworks in this ecosystem. Over the preceding chapters, we have dissected real-world examples and built a robust knowledge base centered on project maintenance and organization. Harnessing that practical knowledge, in this chapter, we will focus on the current status quo of frameworks and examine several predictions to see where innovation in this space is heading in the future. The overall goal is to understand the best practices of JavaScript framework development that are prevalent today, as well as to explore some of the future patterns as they emerge.

The essential takeaways from this chapter will be around bridging the gap between where we are today in the framework development space and what kind of solutions framework authors will build in the near to long-term future....