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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

Simple augmentation of ImagesInc_GlobalData


As you may recall, we used our ImagesInc_GlobalData module (previously named GlobalData) to store application-level data for us. This module also provided a couple of interfaces, so other pieces of the application could have access to the private data that we had stored in this module.

Let's create another JavaScript file, which adds more data and a new interface to this module. We can call this file Modules_2.js and add it to the list of JavaScript files that our main page loads at runtime, as follows:

<script type="text/javascript" src="js/Modules.js" ></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/Modules_2.js" ></script>

As you can see, this file is added as any other JavaScript file would be in our index.html. However, one thing to notice in the preceding code is the order that the two module files have been added. This order is important and we will talk more about it shortly, but for now, keep in mind that our ImageInc_GlobalData...

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