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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

Differentiating modules, libraries, and frameworks

While working on JavaScript applications, we rely on modules, libraries, and, of course, the larger frameworks. These structures can originate from internal and external sources, meaning they are either written by you or your team or are a dependency that is written by someone else. JavaScript, specifically, is in a unique position where modules, libraries, and even frameworks can be used on browser and server environments. For framework developers, it is important to know how to work with these JavaScript structures, because frameworks heavily rely on defining and using modules and libraries. These abstractions and structures allow for better code organization, which we will be discussing in the next subsections.

Modules

Developers create their own modules to separate the code into multiple files or logical blocks. In a similar manner, modules can be imported from external sources. The module encapsulation wraps a block of code...