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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

Summary

This chapter’s core ideas looked at several critical factors and considerations that we need to research and keep in mind as we start our new project. First is identifying the framework’s stakeholders and goals, these being the objectives and the audience that will benefit from having these objectives fulfilled. Then, we examined potential problem spaces, focusing on understanding the project types we can consider. Finally, we explored examples of specific JavaScript architectural design decisions that could shape our project.

Considering all this information will help you create a better framework project. Meanwhile, we will also use these framework considerations together throughout this book. We will start applying all these considerations in the next chapter, as we start building a new framework from scratch.