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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

You can find the resources for this chapter in the book’s repository: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Building-Your-Own-JavaScript-Framework. To make it easier to interact with the practical portion of this chapter, use the chapter4 directory. The interactive script will make it easier for you to run the samples from this chapter. It works as follows from your command prompt or terminal window on your machine:

> npm install
...
> npm start
Welcome to Chapter 4!
? Select the demo to run: (Use arrow keys)
> Next.js with Tailwind CSS
  Practical Docus.dev example

As with other chapters, the code in the repository is designed to work in operating systems that can run the Node.js runtime, such as Windows, macOS, and most variants of Linux.

JavaScript testing refresher

In this chapter, we will be discussing topics related to JavaScript testing. If you require a refresher or additional resources to give you in-depth information...