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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

Technical requirements

This book has an accompanying GitHub repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Building-Your-Own-JavaScript-Framework. In each chapter, we will point to the relevant directories in this repository. Feel free to clone or download the repository as a ZIP file.

You need a desktop or a laptop computer with internet access and a terminal application to install and run the code from this repository. We shall also be utilizing Node.js to run some of the parts of the repository. Node.js is an open source, cross-platform, backend JavaScript runtime environment that runs JavaScript code outside a web browser. The installation for Node.js can be found at nodejs.org. For the code from the repository, you can use any environment that supports a terminal and runs Node.js, such as Windows, macOS, and most varieties of Linux.