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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

Summary

We have looked at abstractions combined with clever API design, which together form the key to building successful frameworks. We have also expanded our knowledge of common framework interfaces that provide value to developers and make the application development process much more efficient and approachable. Understanding how modules, libraries, and frameworks are used helps us be better system architects. In addition, the ability to use the debugger to quickly explore how all these pieces come together in existing frameworks empowers us to be much more efficient developers.

Now that we are more familiar with various organization patterns, we can dive deeper into the specific techniques that help us architect new systems. In the next chapter, we are going to look at the existing and common patterns that combine the building blocks that we have learned into a cohesive system.