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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

Technical requirements

Similar to the previous chapter, we will be using this book’s repository as an extension of this chapter. You can find it at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Building-Your-Own-JavaScript-Framework, and the relevant files are in the chapter3 directory. To run the code in this repository, you can use any environment that supports using a Terminal or a command prompt, running Node.js, such as Windows, macOS, and most varieties of Linux.

Most of the code mentioned in this chapter can be found in this book’s repository, so you don’t have to navigate external repositories. Follow the README.md instructions in the chapter3 directory to get started. In addition, a lot of framework architecture focuses on the stakeholders or developers who will use the framework to build new projects. In this chapter, we will refer to them as framework users, not to be confused with the end users of applications built with these frameworks.