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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

Determining goals and stakeholders and framework branding

The subject of our framework practical exercise is a new JavaScript code testing framework.

Goals

The goal we will try to achieve is to provide robust test tooling for projects of variable complexity. The primary objective of testing frameworks is to provide developers with a reliable, fast, and versatile platform for verifying their code’s functionality, performance, and stability. In addition, they aim to minimize the risk of potential errors and create a seamless development experience that ultimately results in a high-quality product.

To accomplish these project goals, our JavaScript framework will focus on executing tests quickly and accurately, supporting various reporter output formats, and fostering a developer-friendly environment. By prioritizing ease of use and integration with other JavaScript tools and application frameworks, we will aim to make the testing process as seamless and efficient as possible...