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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

Developer experience

With several essential backend features built, we can now focus on the developer experience aspects. Earlier referenced in Figure 7.1, this is the second important aspect of the framework we will focus on. The goal behind introducing framework-adjacent developer tools is to lessen the friction of adapting the features of our framework. It also helps to streamline the experience and create a unified way to work with the framework’s primitives.

To enable most of this experience, we will rely on the componium executable that ships with the framework when it is installed. This executable will take care of a lot of mundane tasks, such as initializing applications and scaffolding standard components. It will also eliminate common points of friction by enabling features such as live server reload.

In the next three subsections, we will explore three potential developer experience offerings that you can provide to the users of your framework.

Bootstrapping...