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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

Core module


The core module is really the brain of our application. It is where the application's heavy lifting is done and the real magic happens.

The core module is responsible for implementing application-level business logic as well as providing bridges among components when there is a need for components to communicate with each other. Of course, while still preserving the loose coupling nature of the application.

The core module also leverages the functionality provided by the third party libraries, which are loaded by the base module, to create a cohesive functional application.

If you are familiar with the architectural design pattern known as Module-View-Controller (MVC), the core module is the controller piece of this design pattern in our application.

We can summarize the role of core module as the following:

  • Acting as the controller for the application

  • Providing communication bridges among modularized components

  • Initializing and destroying components

  • Implementing plug-and-play capability...