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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 provided us with a walkthrough on integrating the concepts and architectural principles from earlier sections of the book to build a basic JavaScript testing framework. The practical approach provides us with insights into building out testing framework internals. Even if we do not end up coding a new testing project, it still trains our software muscles to have general knowledge of architecting something from scratch. Our method uses a combination of libraries and packages to enable a hybrid of standard and unique features.

We covered three parts of the framework development workflow: setting up a new project, drafting an initial design, and working through the first version of the goal brainstorming, architectural design, and implementation. As we put these skills into practice, the goal is to make you as a developer more comfortable with architecting, developing, and producing successful projects for others. In the upcoming chapters, we will focus on framework...