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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 workflow

In the previous sections of the chapter, we identified the project goals, developed the architecture, and described a few sample features of the framework. In this workflow section, let us summarize how developers can take advantage of the project and understand their workflow.

Here are the parts of the workflow, including some of the steps required on the framework developer side to make the project available for consumption.

Framework distribution

A newly created JavaScript framework is published publicly or privately on the npm package registry. When a framework author wants to keep the project fully private, it can be consumed from a private Git repository within the internal infrastructure. This whole framework package includes a README file and framework documentation that helps external developers start building a new application.

New project requirements

To use an example of framework usage, a developer wants to build a sample application that...