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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

Exploring the core architecture

Let’s explore the core architectural pieces of building a framework. When a framework project is created, it is usually partitioned into an organized directory structure consisting of various specialized compartments. This approach helps separate the concerns of specific modules, scripts, and files. This organizational pattern is similar to how web application projects are organized. Except in the case of the framework, the project needs to export public interfaces and scripts to be usable. In some cases, frameworks can also be split into multiple repositories to allow a different approach to framework development.

Given that the programming environment for every language is different, the JavaScript and TypeScript frameworks have their own ways of structuring the framework projects, making it easier to generate artifacts and make the frameworks more usable within the projects that utilize them. A well-organized project makes it easier to maintain...