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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

The technical architecture

The technical architecture and patterns mainly deal with technical challenges. For JavaScript applications, this could mean dealing with rendering a page, responding to a request, interacting with a database, loading an application, and more. In frameworks, the technical challenges extend beyond solving a particular technical problem. Instead, it is about creating a well-designed packaged system that can be beneficial for framework users to build their projects.

To create this system, framework authors need to combine a set of packaged interfaces and a usable set of scripts and also use additional software to improve the JavaScript programming experience.

While learning about the technical architecture, we are going to look at the three categories that enable the essential features of the framework. We are going to explore all the subcategories under these technical topics, as seen in Figure 3.3:

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