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Modular Programming with JavaScript

You're reading from   Modular Programming with JavaScript Modularize your JavaScript code for better readability, greater maintainability, and enhanced testability

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785880650
Length 274 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. What Are Modules and Their Advantages? FREE CHAPTER 2. Review of Important JavaScript OOP Concepts 3. Module Design Pattern 4. Designing Simple Modules 5. Module Augmentation 6. Cloning, Inheritance, and Submodules 7. Base, Sandbox, and Core Modules 8. Application Implementation – Putting It All Together 9. Modular Application Design and Testing 10. Enterprise Grade Modular Design, AMD, CommonJS, and ES6 Modules Index

Summary

In this chapter, we moved from the conceptual design of modules to the practical aspects of implementing them. We started by looking at the high-level requirements of our intended application, and then considered the kind of modules that we might possibly need to fulfill those requirements.

We briefly discussed the MV* design pattern and structured our application to follow this pattern. Then, based on the functionality and the role that our modules play in our design, we categorized them to be part of the controller, view or model pieces of our application.

The view for our application was generated by first creating an index.html page skeleton and then populating its main fragments based on object definitions, using a core module.

We also created a safe global data repository for our application to act as the model piece of our architecture.

An example of how modules can collaborate together to complete tasks and provide application level functionality was also presented.

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