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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

Common themes

Looking at the current state of framework projects in the JavaScript ecosystem, we can see stability, vibrancy, and chaos in the JavaScript framework field. For instance, we have seen many projects utilizing an approach to build on existing primitives, such as many of the frameworks using the React component library as the foundation for component architecture and rendering in the browser. At the other end of the spectrum, projects are created from the ground up, reinventing the approach to rendering in the browser or solving particular challenges of software development with JavaScript. This section explores similar common themes that occur across many projects. Knowing these particular commonalities helps framework developers stay in touch with the rest of the ecosystem and develop more cohesive projects.

When we take a zoomed-out view of the current state of all these projects, at one end of the spectrum, we find large, established frameworks that underpin numerous...