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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 requirements

The implemented framework code is in the book repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Building-Your-Own-JavaScript-Framework. The code for our sample framework is included in the chapter6 directory. To follow the implementation explanation in this chapter, it is recommended to follow along with the framework files in the chapter directory.

To run the code, make sure to have Node.js v20 or higher installed (you can download it from nodejs.org). To make it easier to manage different versions of Node.js, you can use a Node.js version manager tool such as nvm (github.com/nvm-sh/nvm). Running nvm will automatically install the appropriate version of Node.js from the framework project directory, as the project is configured and tested for a particular version. Make sure to run npm install to fetch the project’s dependencies. Running npm test should output a set of passing tests. This means that your local configuration is all correctly set up. The...