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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

Building blocks of abstractions in JavaScript

In this section, we will discuss some detailed abstraction examples in JavaScript, as well as web APIs, and features that are used as the building blocks and foundational components of abstractions in frameworks. Framework and browser developers put a lot of thought and hard work into defining these abstractions, which allow developers to be really crafty, produce well-organized code, and build great products.

Frontend framework abstractions

With these three technologies – HTML, CSS, and JavaScript – that enable website development, we get plenty of building blocks that already abstract away the challenges of publishing something on the web. However, we do not get a particular, well-structured, opinionated way to build complex web application projects. This is where the frontend frameworks primarily fill the void that is lacking in the core technologies provided by the web. The frontend frameworks create abstractions...