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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

Identifying framework problem spaces

Frameworks are designed to support the development of one or many projects, focusing on solving a particular problem space. We define a problem space as a set of challenges or a range of problems that the framework is prepared to address; this is the second pillar from Figure 5.1. A problem space can be a specific software application area in which the framework is intended to be used.

As we saw from examples of frameworks in previous chapters of this book, JavaScript has a broad reach in client and server environments. It enables us to build frameworks to fit our needs and technological requirements. For your brand new project, you could potentially be tackling a particular framework category. By focusing on the technical aspects of a unique project, combined with innovative features, you can make your project different from what is already available out there in the wild.

Popular problem spaces

Here are some potential development paths...