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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 assets and code are in the chapter7 directory. As with Chapter 6, we will utilize Node.js v20 or higher for this project.

Refer to the README.md file of the framework in the chapter directory if you want to run or tweak the framework files locally. npm scripts can be handy to use shortcuts during development. As with other projects, to begin working on the framework, you need to install the dependencies with npm install.

The framework provides an executable that helps create the scaffold outline of the project, run the newly created application, and more. To locally install the componium framework executable from the chapter7 directory, you can link the executable to use it in different directories. To achieve this, from the checked-out repository directory, use npm link <path>/chapter7/componium. This will link...