Patterns For Large-Scale JavaScript Application Architecture

Today we're going to discuss an effective set of patterns for large-scale JavaScript application architecture. The material is based on my talk of the same name, last presented at LondonJS and inspired by previous work by Nicholas Zakas. Who am I and why am I writing about this topic? I'm currently a JavaScript and UI developer at AOL helping to plan and write the front-end architecture to our next generation of client-facing applications. As these applications are both complex and often require an architecture that is scalable and highly-reusable, it's one of my responsibilities to ensure the patterns used to implement such applications are as sustainable as possible. I also consider myself something of a design pattern enthusiast (although there are far more knowledgeable experts on this topic than I). Can you summarize this article in 140 characters? In the event of you being short for time, here's the tweet-sized summary of this article: What exactly is a 'large' JavaScript application?

jsf - Javascript self contained sandbox events and client side stack Organizing Your Backbonejs Application With Modules If you have spent any time looking at Backbone.js, like many others, you are probably amazed by how lightweight, flexible and elegant it is. Backbone.js is incredibly powerful, but not prescriptive in how it should be used. With great power comes great responsibility, and if you’ve tried to use Backbone.js for a large project you might be asking yourself: how do I organize my code? When thinking about “code organization” the questions you might be asking are: How do I declare and invoke Backbone types? How do I manage a separation of concerns? All good questions! There’s been a lot of debate about this issue in the Backbone.js community for several reasons. Having said all this, let’s dive into some of the details. Here’s how you might layout your application structure: Static Assets Your static assets such as CSS, images and JavaScript libraries required by your code should go under a parent directory, such as the assets directory in our example above. Application code Index.html 3.

Five Tools for Managing Complexity in Large-Scale JavaScript Projects - Signals Blog JavaScript lacks many of the tools and culture that define a clear 'right way' to approach large-scale projects. Yet it's still possible to build and maintain complex software with JavaScript. But how? For the last year, I've been involved in the development of a chemical structure editor written in JavaScript. ChemWriter is an interactive, graphically-oriented component that combines many characteristics of a drawing program with chemistry domain knowledge. In the course of developing ChemWriter, we've experimented with many tools and approaches for managing complexity as the capabilities of the software increased. Google Closure. ChemWriter is a component consisting of over 14,000 lines of JavaScript code spread over 112 source files and 14 packages, and is backed by over 1,600 automated tests.

Deeper separation in Module Sandbox Core Javascript Pattern Backbone.js Backbone.js gives structure to web applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing API over a RESTful JSON interface. The project is hosted on GitHub, and the annotated source code is available, as well as an online test suite, an example application, a list of tutorials and a long list of real-world projects that use Backbone. Backbone is available for use under the MIT software license. You can report bugs and discuss features on the GitHub issues page, on Freenode IRC in the #documentcloud channel, post questions to the Google Group, add pages to the wiki or send tweets to @documentcloud. Backbone is an open-source component of DocumentCloud. Downloads & Dependencies (Right-click, and use "Save As") Backbone's only hard dependency is Underscore.js ( >= 1.5.0). Introduction Many of the examples that follow are runnable. Upgrading to 1.1

What is the current state of the art in HTML canvas JavaScript libraries and frameworks Annotated ES5 Organizing your application using Modules (require.js) - Backbone.js Tutorials Unfortunately Backbone.js does not tell you how to organize your code, leaving many developers in the dark regarding how to load scripts and lay out their development environments. This was quite a different decision to other JavaScript MVC frameworks who were more in favor of setting a development philosophy. Hopefully this tutorial will allow you to build a much more robust project with great separation of concerns between design and code. This tutorial will get you started on combining Backbone.js with AMD (Asynchronous Module Definitions). What is AMD? Asynchronous Module Definitions designed to load modular code asynchronously in the browser and server. This tutorial will use Require.js to implement a modular and organized Backbone.js. I highly recommend using AMD for application development Quick Overview ModularScalableCompiles well(see r.js )Market Adoption( Dojo 1.6 converted fully to AMD ) Why Require.js? Require.js has a great community and it is growing rapidly. Getting started <!