frameless

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Discover frameless, the 🇨🇭Swiss Army Knife of Hexagonal Architecture conventions!

Frameless is essential to unleashing your software development process's true capabilities. It assists in making your application scalable, adaptable, and easy to maintain by streamlining your project's design and managing code complexity effectively.

Frameless simplifies your software development process by promoting conventions over configurations, allowing you to concentrate on crucial aspects instead of repeatedly starting from scratch.

Like the iconic Swiss Army Knife, frameless is a versatile and indispensable tool ready to tackle any challenge, enabling you to adapt and thrive in the ever-changing software development landscape.

frameless adopt a monolithic module design reminiscent of the Linux kernel. However, this design choice is not related to monolithic software architecture; instead, it resembles how mono repositories assist code owners in managing their systems.

frameless is made up of three high-level components.

port

port are plain interfaces to make expressing a domain role interface straightforward. Using ports doesn't have any vendor locking effect. You can use almost every port by just copy their functions into your role interface in your domain layer.

Each port interface has its importable contract(s) that help you ensure that the behaviour is consistent across the implementations.

Some port package contain a small amount of optional helper functions to help streamlining their use.

There is also testing packages to make it easy to write behaviour-driven tests against your implementations when you need to specify additional expectations towards them from your domain layer.

Using frameless/port safe from vendor locking as they just a collection of finely refined inter

CRUD / relationships

If you need to store entities in your system and want to learn more about representing relationships between them, check the documentation in the port/crud/relationship package.

In short, you can achieve this by referencing one entity from another.

type User struct {
    ID string
}

type Note struct {
    ID     string
    UserID string // UserID references User#ID., thus making Note belongs to User through UserID. <-> User#ID.
}

pkg

Various tooling built either upon using frameless/port or supplies tools often required to develop web services.

• Some notable examples:
  • logger for structured logging
  • tasker for managing background tasks
  • cache for wrapping repositories (DB, HTTP clients, etc.) with caching to increase reliability and/or speed in the domain layer
  • httpkit for building restful HTTP APIs and/or exposing repositories as rest resources and many more.
    • httpkit/rfc7807 for replying back errors on your API in a structure and extendable way.
  • enum for tag definition based enum value validation
  • errorkit to help you work with errors, forward port some features, and make distinction between errors based on their SRP actor.
  • txkit which allow defining rollback steps in your functions, which makes implementing error handling in a stateful system much easier

adapters

adapters has Example implementations for the ports, especially the memory package, which enables you to do a classicist Test-Driven Development (TDD) testing strategy.

When you import frameless, adapters are not automatically imported into your project; you must import them explicitly. This approach helps maintain a lean and tidy dependency graph while working with frameless.