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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

Architecture

Now that we have a clearer definition of the backend features, we can start architecting the packages and components of the framework. We will need encapsulation for server and routing interfaces, as well as additional components that allow us to communicate with databases, fetch particular application configurations, and report metrics or logs through logging.

Figure 7.3: The request life cycle

Figure 7.3: The request life cycle

Figure 7.3 represents a simplified view of the request life cycle that our framework will process. The requests can originate in a browser client or, potentially, be direct requests to an API endpoint of the server that our framework needs to handle. You can find a sample application built using our framework in the chapter directory under tests/sample.

Figure 7.4: A sample application layout

Figure 7.4: A sample application layout

We now have an overview of how a framework processes requests through its internals. Figure 7.4 shows an example of an application...