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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 architecture

In the previous sections of this chapter, we identified our stakeholders—those who will directly benefit from our framework project. We also identified potential problem spaces. Those two factors give us a solid idea of what we want to build. In this section, we explore the third pillar from Figure 5.1technical architecture—to give us a focused look at the technical specificities of our planned project.

Abstraction levels and flexibility

The importance of practical abstraction levels and allowing flexibility in code APIs of a JavaScript framework is an important design decision. As you develop your frameworks, these two principles are necessary to ensure the framework’s usability, maintainability, and adaptability.

As explored in Chapter 2, sensible abstraction levels are essential for providing developers with clean, easy-to-understand interfaces. The encapsulated complexities of the underlying implementation improve productivity...