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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

Framework Considerations

In the previous chapters, we primarily focused on learning from other framework projects to prepare for building our full stack JavaScript framework, which will include the ability to create backend infrastructure and frontend interfaces and will have capabilities to test both sides of these features. Even though our goal is a full stack framework for application development, you will be able to use what you learned from this experience and apply it to similar JavaScript projects. Existing projects’ architectural patterns and design decisions will help us orient our project and set it up for success. In this chapter, we will study three factors to consider when we plan out our framework that are useful for aspiring software architects and those considering being the responsible individuals behind larger technical project decisions.

Items to cover for the purposes of our framework considerations are set out here:

  • Determining project goals:...