DEVNOLOGY 2014 - Building large client-side JavaScript apps

Some of the lessons that we have learned over the last couple of years developing a Single Page Application.

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1. Building large client-side JavaScript applications
2. Michiel Overeem Lead Software Architect / Developer m.overeem@afas.nl @michielovereem linkedin.com/in/movereem
3. not in production and not complete
5. "The key is to acknowledge from the start that you have no idea how this will grow." - Nicholas Zakas
6. Do it yourself?
7. Does it fit?
8. Can we trust this?
9. What if we’re stuck?
10. Ideas over frameworks
12. "The secret to building large apps is never build large apps. Break your applications into small pieces. Then, assemble those testable, bite-sized pieces into your big application" - Justin Meyer, author JavaScriptMVC
15. Initializes a module, translates events from the view to actions on the model Maintains state, and communicates with the backend for data Presents state and communicates with the DOM
16. It is that easy
17. Pollution
18. They need some privacy
22.  dev.afas.nl
24. Don’t fear choice, slowly grow code Choose principles, not frameworks Choose frameworks that match principles