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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

Ensuring Framework Usability and Quality

Continuing on the theme of framework architecture from the previous chapter, we will begin to look at the more architectural aspects of JavaScript frameworks. While technical architecture plays the core role and provides the guts of the framework, there are additional pieces of system architecture that engineers can add so that the project has a higher grade of usability and quality. As we mainly specialize in JavaScript projects, we will find a variety of tools that help us focus on quality. These tools are often built with JavaScript, but they also integrate with other systems, making it easier for those familiar with the language to cherish the benefits.

Supporting the technical usability of a framework is a series of development quality and usability patterns. These include the additional infrastructure that is used as part of framework development and framework usage. Generally, we look at these components as tools that improve our framework...