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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

Building a Framework by Example

This chapter combines all the insight and architectural knowledge from Parts 1 and 2 of the book and puts it into practice. Follow along as we develop a simple JavaScript testing framework based on the patterns and best techniques we have seen so far. The practical approach will enable us to learn by example, as it is a great educational approach for software topics of this kind. The framework we build here is a new project developed specifically for this chapter. We can treat this new sample framework project as a “Hello World” exercise for JavaScript framework development. Our aim through this exercise is to train our abilities and apply them later on in real-world projects.

This chapter will cover the following topics for building a framework by example:

  • First, we’ll structure our initial approach for a new framework project, including determining the goals, stakeholders, and branding for creating something from scratch...