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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

Learning about abstractions

Let’s dive into the first aspect of framework organization – the fundamental concept of abstractions. One of the main conveniences of software development frameworks in web development or other fields is to provide developers with high-quality opinionated abstractions. This means taking a task that can span multiple lines of code, riddled with implementation gotchas, and creating a simple interface around it. It also means coming up with an intelligent way of structuring independent interfaces into a familiar, extensible pattern that is easily usable.

This concept of abstracting away the complexity and generalization of objects helps us define the building blocks that could be used for multiple purposes in our frameworks. Each abstracted object can be initialized with a custom set of properties and be utilized in many shapes when needed. Having this benefit of simplification and generalization in frameworks is what allows developers to focus...