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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

Development support

Let's dive into a series of techniques and tools that enable developers to build quality frameworks focused on usability and ease of use. Learning and utilizing these types of development support strategies will help us with our framework development, making our projects more usable in internal (work projects) or public contexts (open source/publicly published projects).

Some of these development methodologies and skills are not specific to JavaScript framework development; they are used across many JavaScript and web application development undertakings. However, in the context of framework development, the approach to these tooling and usability patterns is different from a regular application project. For example, a framework might have a particular expanded set of tests that ensures that new features and changes do not break the existing applications that use it. This type of extended testing is a particular case that only applies to framework projects...