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Modular Programming with JavaScript

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Modular Programming with JavaScript

Overview of this book

Programming in the modular manner is always encouraged for bigger systems—it is easier to achieve scalability with modular programming. Even JavaScript developers are now interested in building programs in a modular pattern. Modules help people who aren’t yet familiar with code to find what they are looking for and also makes it easier for programmers to keep things that are related close together. Designing and implementing applications in a modular manner is highly encouraged and desirable in both simple and enterprise level applications. This book covers some real-life examples of modules and how we can translate that into our world of programming and application design. After getting an overview of JavaScript object-oriented programming (OOP) concepts and their practical usage, you should be able to write your own object definitions using the module pattern. You will then learn to design and augment modules and will explore the concepts of cloning, inheritance, sub-modules, and code extensibility. You will also learn about SandBoxing, application design, and architecture based on modular design concepts. Become familiar with AMD and CommonJS utilities. By the end of the book, you will be able to build spectacular modular applications in JavaScript.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Modular Programming with JavaScript
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
2
Review of Important JavaScript OOP Concepts
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we covered what module augmentation is and explored a couple of different techniques, known as loose augmentation and tight augmentation, to implement module augmentation.

We saw how each approach is used in different circumstances and for different application requirements, as well as the pros and cons related to each technique.

The order in which scripts should be loaded was also discussed, based on the augmentation technique used.

Once we had a good grasp of these augmentation implementations, we refactored part of our application code to augment ImagesInc_GlobalData module. Subsequently, we generated the content area of index.html page and populated it with containers, which will host the images for our application in the future.

In the next chapter, we will look at some more techniques in modular design which will enable us to extend and clone our modules as needed.