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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

Full stack framework goals

Before we get to the software architecture part of this project, we need to get a better insight into what a full stack framework will entail, especially in the JavaScript context and the language’s ecosystem. When developing a full stack JavaScript framework, we get to create a blend of abstractions and conventions to help developers produce a combination of frontend and backend components, given the modular nature of the JavaScript language and its ecosystem. From the JavaScript-language point of view, the framework can utilize the latest syntax and functional improvements, such as ES6 modules and modern web APIs. Ecosystem-wise, we will heavily rely on already-established modules to enable certain functionality. Similar to the approach in Chapter 6, this strategy allows us to stay focused on the larger system design and achieve much better feature coverage.

The primary objective of a full stack framework is to simplify the application development...