Re: [IBMiOSS] Node code organization

So, everyone will have a opinion on this...take mine with a grain of salt....

The MVC pattern was driven by the need to move from a monolithic program to a structure that was more modular, maintainable and organized.  So, even a monolithic pre-MVC pattern program would have subroutines that broke out the different programmatic components.  So, building reusable modules of Models, Views and Controllers, even if they weren't completely reused as a components, was just a logical extension of a need for organization wrapped around the available technology.

The latest craze of "micro-services" is just an extreme extension of MVC into today's heterogeneous technology environment.  The pendulum will swing back into more complete "packages" rather than micro-services at some point.  There is just a practical balance of functional separation and maintainability that will rule the day.

The term MVC may be passe, but the concept is alive and well and now living in a micro-service world....

Pete Helgren
www.petesworkshop.com
GIAC Secure Software Programmer-Java
Twitter - Sys_i_Geek IBM_i_Geek

On 1/12/2018 2:09 AM, Kevin wrote:

Do you really want a traditional MVC pattern? That’s generally considered a bit passé. If you are developing something new then I would go with the component approach (ala React, Angular 2 and beyond, Vue etc).

On 12 Jan 2018, at 00:44, Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I ran this command:

$ express hello_world


It generated these directories:

-bin

-public

---images

---javascripts

---stylesheets

-routes

-views


With MVC, I think V=views and C=routes, and I'd need to create a dir for M. Does that sound about right?



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From: Pete Helgren <pete@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2018 1:42 PM
To: IBMi Open Source Roundtable
Subject: Re: [IBMiOSS] Node code organization

Some frameworks are opinionated and some aren't so it depends if you are
going to end up fighting conventions or not. I think just about any
framework with an MVC design pattern will group like code/objects
together and I even do that for my RPG stuff (which has no opinion).
Node itself I don't think cares about structure. It is what ever is
familiar to you, but in most cases my guess is that you'll follow either
a logical grouping of like code:

/Model

/View

/Controller

Or use a naming convention: model1.js, view1.js, controller1.js under a
single folder. My Java and Rails projects follow the convention above;
A structured, opinionated layout. My Node projects follow the latter
unless they use a framework that has it's own opinionated structure.

I'd say with complex apps, MVC by folder groupings may be easier. For
small apps I'd keep it simple....

Pete Helgren
www.petesworkshop.com<http://www.petesworkshop.com>
GIAC Secure Software Programmer-Java
Twitter - Sys_i_Geek IBM_i_Geek

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