Single Page Web Applications

Chapter 4. Add feature modules

This chapter covers

• Defining feature modules and how they fit into our architecture
• Comparing feature modules and third-party modules
• Explaining the fractal MVC design pattern and its role in our architecture
• Setting up files and directories for feature modules
• Defining and implementing the feature module APIs
• Implementing commonly needed feature module capabilities

Before you begin, you should have completed chapters 1–3 of this book. You should also have the project files from chapter 3 as we’ll be building on them. We recommend you copy all the files and the whole directory structure you created in chapter 3 into a new “chapter_4” directory so you may update them there.

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