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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

Framework Organization

The existing JavaScript frameworks have many technical and structural similarities that are useful to learn as part of becoming experts in framework development. In this chapter, framework organization refers to the way of composing a set of abstractions and building blocks, thus creating a collection of usable interfaces that can be utilized in application code.

We are going to learn about the following organizational topics that enable framework development and use:

  • Learning about abstractions
  • Building blocks of abstractions in JavaScript
  • Framework building blocks
  • Differentiating modules, libraries, and frameworks

Understanding the core building blocks and aspects of framework development will help us craft our own framework and have the domain knowledge to use other frameworks to their maximum potential. The expectations from the users or stakeholders of a software framework are to have clear instructions with familiar application...