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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

Determining project goals

While contemplating building a new framework, you must identify your project’s objectives and stakeholders. These two factors are the main drivers behind your time and investment into building something new. Embarking on a new framework project requires understanding potential motivators and a clear insight into the goals, emphasizing the developer you support and their needs. These reasons can range from internal work use cases to open source hobby projects. Your scenario may very well differ but based on Figure 5.1, we can explore the first pillar—project goals—as part of this section.

Context

Comprehending the context of a project is fundamental to guiding its development and ensuring it meets the needs of its intended users. The context involves assessing factors such as the project’s purpose, target audience, and the environments in which it will be used. Two contexts for framework projects are along the following themes...