application.skeleton

application.skeleton

Application Framework base package: it loads and applies packages to the application object.

I was and still am a big fan of LEGO® and I would like to think that software development should work in the same way. NPM is a great piece box and if we use prototype-less patterns (mixins, ...) we could apply behaviours to our applications by expressing them as dependencies...

Example, my application should:

• emit events (install application.mixin.emitter)
• be a state machine (install application.mixin.automaton)
• use network communication (install application.module.socket and any available protocol package)

This way I don't need to implement all this stuff or write code to use libraries: the behaviour is instantly available in the application object. I can focus on the application specific code.

Plugin types

Mixin

Mixins add behaviours to the base application object itself: package name prefix is application.mixin.

module

Modules wrap functionalities related to some specific domain into one property of the base object: package name prefix is application.module.

Usage

Set Dependency

npm install application.skeleton

Configuration

You can optionally pass a configuration that will be stored in the application object in a config property.

The structure of the config is up to you and your project, however there is one limitation: config.modules is reserved. This config property is used to set configuration options for modules.

var config = {
  "prop1": "someValue",
  "prop2": "whatever",
  modules: {
    "application.module.socket": {
      "enableThis": true,
      "portRange": [25000, 25100]
    }
  }
};

Initialise

var skeleton = require('application.skeleton');

// load plugins
skeleton(application, config);

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