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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

Future of frameworks

The JavaScript ecosystem is still one of the most vibrant among other programming languages, and it is bound to grow and expand into new areas. As this happens, we will start seeing future innovations that will affect how frameworks are built and how they are utilized. The patterns used by the developers we see today will also change as time progresses. Keeping up with the industry tendencies and looking at what is ahead will help you build better systems and incorporate the latest trends into what you build. In this part, we take a look at some potential areas that framework evolution and improvements can potentially head toward.

Developer experience

We have seen how important the developer experience (DX) can be in a framework. In the future, the DX factor will even further differentiate good frameworks from great ones. Providing additional tooling and finding ways to reduce complexity makes it much easier to start building with a framework. In recent years...