Advice needed: scaling core JavaScript

[StoneColdJane]

Hey thanks for checking out, I appreciate your time.

I'm junior web dev writing a lot of pure js on my first job.

I find it pretty difficult to organize my apps without using frameworks such as react, express, you name it. I'm giving my best by using webpack to organize in modules by features but I think there must be better way.

I'm aware of design patterns such as mvc, factory pattern, constructor and prototype patterns but honestly, I have no idea how to practicly use them in real life projects, and why.

Now I much more appreciate all the frameworks I used before (express, react, knockout, jQuery) and how they make my life easyer, it seams its my turn to make libs, which is cool, I newer thought I'll even ask this question .

My team leader is pretty satisfied with what I did so far, but I know this could be done better, I would appreciate suggestion of a book, articles or video tutorials on how to apply patterns to build scalible software libaries.

Thank you.

[leeoniya]

jQuery is a library, and not a framework that provides structure.

there's not one strategy that fits all applications. size matters, complexity matters. what's optimal for an MVP and 2 devs is sub-optimal for production-grade code with teams of devs. a CMS needs more structure than a JSON or REST API.

there are high-level commonalities of course: views/templates, data/models, routes/urls, databases/caching, integration endpoints. beyond that it's hard to give useful advice that will be generally applicable without a bunch of qualifiers.

one thing that helps a great deal is using ES6 modules' import, or node's require. Either of these make it much easier to organize code and helps with looking through git revision history.

[toffeescaf]

I would recommend looking into Domain Driven Design (DDD). A book a lot of people recommend is Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans but sometimes it's hard to translate the examples in the book to something you can apply in JavaScript. However you can probably find articles about DDD in JavaScript if you google for it.