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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

Creating a Full Stack Framework

In Chapter 6, we learned a practical example of building a simple JavaScript testing framework. In this chapter, we will continue this practical approach, further diving into the development of frameworks.

The next goal is to develop a full stack framework that will enable developers to build large and small web applications. This chapter will start off by developing the backend parts of such a framework, focusing on the server-side components and integrating essential developer tooling. These backend components, once established, will help us support the frontend elements of the framework we will create in Chapter 8. Developing the backend feature set in this chapter will help us do the following:

  • Define the technical architecture and goals of our new full stack framework. This is similar to the Chapter 6 exercise, but now we will switch the context and focus more on the technical challenges of the backend server functionality.
  • Learn...