Summary

This first chapter began our exploration into how the web application development process has changed from pure basics into a full-fledged software platform. We have looked at how the innovations and challenges of the web shape the frameworks discussed in this chapter and play a huge role in offering a variety of useful features to web developers. As part of my career journey, working on various projects made me appreciate how much can be achieved by combining elegant patterns and the creative use of the JavaScript programming language.

As part of the framework showcase, it is evident that the ecosystem has a lot of options for the browser and other places where JavaScript runtime functions. However, there is always room for improvement in speed, features, and unique ideas, which can help us enhance the development processes. The significant part that stimulates this ecosystem is the ever-evolving web platform, development of the ECMAScript specification, and of course, the hard work of maintainers of runtimes such as Node.js and Deno.

In the upcoming chapters, we will dive deeper into software paradigms, focusing on framework organization and their architectural patterns. In Chapter 2, we are going to look at how frameworks are structured and organized.