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JavaScript at Scale

By : Adam Boduch
Book Image

JavaScript at Scale

By: Adam Boduch

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
JavaScript at Scale
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Communication models


There are various communication models we can use to enable inter-component communication. The simplest would be method invocations, or function calls. This approach is the most direct and the easiest to implement. However, there's also a deep coupling between one component that directly invokes method of another. This can't scale beyond a couple components.

Instead, we need a level of indirection between our components; something that mediates the communication from one component to another. This helps us to scale our inter-component communication because we're no longer communicating directly with other components. Instead, we're relying on our communication mechanism to fulfill message delivery. The two prevalent models for such a communication mechanism are message passing and event triggering. Let's compare the two approaches.

Message-passing models

Message-passing communication models are commonplace in JavaScript applications. For example, messages can be passed...