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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

GlobalData module


As the name implies, this module is designed to store application level data and act as the model for our application. It also provides public methods so that other modules can get and set data in the module. This module is defined as ImagesInc_GlobalData global variable in the application..

The following shows a snippet of the kind of data that the module stores:

    var favCookieName = "Images_Inc", 
        pageDefintionsFile = "PageDefinitions.js", 
        pageDefinitionsFilePath = "js/Modules/PageDefinitions/",
...

This module is augmented with a sub-module ImagesInc_PageSections, which stores HTML markup strings related to header and footer components.

It is worth looking at how this sub-module is added to GlobalData module.

var ImagesInc_GlobalData = ImagesInc_GlobalData || null;

var ImagesInc_PageSections = (function(mainModule, subModule){
 // assigning the subModule if it is passed in and also augmenting sub-module
    var pageSections = mainModule.pageSections ...
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