What this book covers

Chapter 1, What Are Modules and Their Advantages?, introduces you to the concept of modules and how they can help us design a robust and scalable application.

Chapter 2, Review of Important JavaScript OOP Concepts, covers an overview of some of the important OOP concepts in JavaScript which are necessary for the design and implementation of the modules in our application.

Chapter 3, Module Design Pattern, introduces a very common pattern in creating modules in JavaScript and shows how this pattern can be implemented.

Chapter 4, Designing Simple Modules, uses the module pattern to create simple modules which work together to form the building blocks of our application.

Chapter 5, Module Augmentation, shows the use of various techniques to add more functionality to our modules so that we can extend their capabilities further.

Chapter 6, Cloning, Inheritance, and Submodules, covers how to create modules based on other modules in our application, as well as some more techniques to enhance our modules.

Chapter 7, Base, Sandbox, and Core Modules, introduces some of the main pieces of our application and demonstrates how to create loose coupling among our application modules.

Chapter 8, Application Implementation – Putting It All Together, shows us how to apply all the concepts that we have learned regarding modular architectural design, in order to implement all the pieces of our application.

Chapter 9, Modular Application Design and Testing, covers how to test our application modules using either plain JavaScript or third-party frameworks.

Chapter 10, Enterprise Grade Modular Design, AMD, CommonJS, and ES6 Modules, introduces different modular formats in JavaScript which can be used to design modules, as well as how modules can be imported and exported in our application using these formats.