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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

Creating loose coupling among modules

In a modular design, an application is often created using many modules. In order for these modules to work together, we need to create coupling among them, without the modules being tightly dependent on each other.

Let's create an application based on a few simple modules and have the modules interact with each other in a loosely coupled manner. Of course, we will keep this application very simple for now. In later chapters, we will take the concepts utilized in this application and build upon them to create our fully modularized application ecosystem.

I'm making the safe assumption here that our future application will consist of many separate modules, with each one of them being responsible for doing a very specific task.

We will start by creating our core application module and calling it ApplicationInitModule. Usually, the very first step in running an application is to take care of the application's initialization tasks. Our ApplicationInitModule...

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