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Building Your Own JavaScript Framework

By : Vlad Filippov
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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

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

Code in text: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: “For example, if you are planning to add API routes to build an API in the Next.js project, they must be mapped to an /api/ endpoint.”

A block of code is set as follows:

pages/index.vue
<template>
  <NuxtLink to="/">Index page</NuxtLink>
  <NuxtLink href="https://www.packtpub.com/" target="_blank">Packt</NuxtLink>
</template>

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

<root framework directory>
  | <main framework packages>
    + <core framework interfaces...>
    + <compiler / bundler>
  | <tests>
    + <unit tests>
    + <integration and end-to-end tests>
    + <benchmarks>
  | <static / dynamic typings>
  | <documentation>
  | <examples / samples>
  | <framework scripts>
  | LICENSE
  | README documentation
  | package.json (package configuration)
  | <.continuous integration>
  | <.source control add-ons>
  | <.editor and formatting configurations>

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see on screen. For instance, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in bold. Here is an example: "After pressing the Debug button, you will be presented with a context menu of all the available scripts in the project."

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