Architecting Frontend Frameworks
In this chapter, we now switch focus to the frontend components of the full stack framework that we began building in Chapter 7. This is the final part of adding new features and architecting the technical design for the purposes of our Componium framework example. The frontend features are the most complex to design because they require a lot of domain knowledge of browsers, in-depth JavaScript, the ability to handle complex edge cases, and so on. We will cover a series of frontend topics that focus on enabling a full stack framework development environment. Here are some of the topics that we will cover:
- Frontend features: We will determine the features and goals of the frontend components for our framework. In addition, this new frontend infrastructure needs to interact with the existing components of the full stack framework, such as the backend API routes and the testing interfaces.
- Architectural design: After learning more about the...