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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

This chapter focused on the technical architectural structure of JavaScript frameworks. We focused on the three important parts of framework architecture: packages, scripts, and compilers. Combining this with the knowledge we gained from Chapters 1 and 2, we can start pinpointing the core differences in how various frameworks have their architectures structured. Having an overview of architectural patterns helps us understand how existing frameworks are formulated and makes it easier for us to build new frameworks.

Exploring established projects helps us borrow the best ideas from existing open source frameworks. In addition, learning the internal designs provides insight into how the frameworks fit into complex code bases that utilize a framework. The next chapter will look at development support techniques and patterns that make framework development and usability even better.