arch-unit-ts

arch-unit-ts is a free library for checking your typescript architecture. Inspired by ArchUnit .

This library can check dependencies between packages and classes. The main goal of Arch-Unit-ts is to automatically test architecture and coding rules of your project.

We began to implement functionalities in order to be able to test a hexagonal architecture the same way it is done in JhipsterLite

• How to use
  • Installation
  • Hexagonal Arch Test example
  • Configuration
  • Troubleshooting

How to use

I tried to stay as close as I could to ArchUnit. If something is implemented, it should work the same way as the original one.

Installation

npm install arch-unit-ts

Hexagonal Arch Test example

First, you will need to create two files SharedKernel.ts and BusinessContext.ts. You can place them at the root of you webapp project.

export abstract class SharedKernel {}

export abstract class BusinessContext {}

Then, in each context you have, you will need to add a package-info.ts in the context root folder. If it's a business context, make it extends BusinessContext. If it's a shared kernel, make it extends SharedKernel. The important part is the imports, make sure you import only one of them.

import { SharedKernel } from "@/SharedKernel";

class PackageInfo extends SharedKernel {}

/// OR

import {BusinessContext} from "@/BusinessContext";

class PackageInfo extends BusinessContext {}

Example of packages:

Then, you can create an HexagonalArchTest.spec.ts. The path of your source project (folder from which you want to test your architecture) is a relative path starting from your tsconfig.json file.

import { TypeScriptProject } from 'arch-unit-ts/dist/arch-unit/core/domain/TypeScriptProject';
import { RelativePath } from 'arch-unit-ts/dist/arch-unit/core/domain/RelativePath';
import { classes, noClasses } from 'arch-unit-ts/dist/main';
import { SharedKernel } from '@/app/SharedKernel';
import { BusinessContext } from '@/app/BusinessContext';
import { Architectures } from 'arch-unit-ts/dist/arch-unit/library/Architectures';

describe('HexagonalArchTest', () => {
  const srcProject = new TypeScriptProject(RelativePath.of('src/main/app'), '**/*FilesToExclude*', '**/*OtherFilesToExclude*');

  const sharedKernels = packagesWithContext(SharedKernel.name);
  const businessContexts = packagesWithContext(BusinessContext.name);

  function otherBusinessContextsDomains(context: string): string[] {
      return businessContexts.filter(other => context !== other).map(name => name + '.domain..');
  }

  function packagesWithContext(contextName: string): string[] {
    return srcProject
      .filterClasses('**/package-info.ts')
      .filter(typeScriptClass => typeScriptClass.hasImport(contextName))
      .map(typeScriptClass => typeScriptClass.packagePath.getDotsPath());
  }

  describe('BoundedContexts', () => {
    it.each([...sharedKernels, ...businessContexts])('Should %s not depend on other bounded context domains', (context) => {
      noClasses()
        .that()
        .resideInAnyPackage(context + '..')
        .should()
        .dependOnClassesThat()
        .resideInAnyPackage(...otherBusinessContextsDomains(context))
        .because('Contexts can only depend on classes in the same context or shared kernels')
        .check(srcProject.allClasses());
    });

    it('primary TypeScript Adapters should only be called from secondaries', () => {
      classes()
        .that()
        .resideInAPackage('..primary..')
        .and()
        .haveSimpleNameStartingWith('TypeScript')
        .should()
        .onlyHaveDependentClassesThat()
        .resideInAPackage('..secondary..')
        .because(
          "To interact between two contexts, secondary from context 'A' should call a primary TypeScript adapter (naming convention starting with 'TypeScript') from context 'B'"
        )
        .check(srcProject.allClasses());
    });
  });

  describe('Domain', () => {
    it('Should not depend on outside', () => {
      classes()
        .that()
        .resideInAPackage('..domain..')
        .should()
        .onlyDependOnClassesThat()
        .resideInAnyPackage('..domain..', ...sharedKernels)
        .because('Domain model should only depend on domains and a very limited set of external dependencies')
        .check(srcProject.allClasses());
    });

    it.each([...sharedKernels, ...businessContexts])('should be an hexagonal architecture in context %s', context => {
      Architectures.layeredArchitecture()
        .consideringOnlyDependenciesInAnyPackage(context + '..')
        .withOptionalLayers(true)
        .layer('domain models', context + '.domain..')
        .layer('domain services', context + '.domain..')
        .layer('application services', context + '.application..')
        .layer('primary adapters', context + '.infrastructure.primary..')
        .layer('secondary adapters', context + '.infrastructure.secondary..')
        .whereLayer('application services')
        .mayOnlyBeAccessedByLayers('primary adapters')
        .whereLayer('primary adapters')
        .mayNotBeAccessedByAnyLayer()
        .whereLayer('secondary adapters')
        .mayNotBeAccessedByAnyLayer()
        .because('Each bounded context should implement an hexagonal architecture')
        .check(srcProject.allClasses());
    });
  });

  describe('Application', () => {
    it('Should not depend on infrastructure', () => {
      noClasses()
        .that()
        .resideInAPackage('..application..')
        .should()
        .dependOnClassesThat()
        .resideInAnyPackage('..infrastructure..')
        .because('Application should only depend on domain, not on infrastructure')
        .check(srcProject.allClasses());
    });
  });

  describe('Primary', () => {
    it('Should not depend on secondary', () => {
      noClasses()
        .that()
        .resideInAPackage('..primary..')
        .should()
        .dependOnClassesThat()
        .resideInAnyPackage('..secondary..')
        .because('Primary should not interact with secondary')
        .check(srcProject.allClasses());
    });
  });

  describe('Secondary', () => {
    it('should not depend on application', () => {
      noClasses()
        .that()
        .resideInAPackage('..infrastructure.secondary..')
        .should()
        .dependOnClassesThat()
        .resideInAPackage('..application..')
        .because('Secondary should not depend on application')
        .check(srcProject.allClasses());
    });

    it.each([...sharedKernels, ...businessContexts])('should %s not depend on same context primary', (context) => {
      noClasses()
        .that()
        .resideInAPackage(context + '.infrastructure.secondary..')
        .should()
        .onlyDependOnClassesThat()
        .resideInAPackage(context + '.infrastructure.primary..')
        .because("Secondary should not loop to its own context's primary")
        .check(srcProject.allClasses());
    });
  });
});

Configuration

You can add a configuration file at your project root called arch-unit-ts.json with the following properties (default values bellow).

{
  "showImportsWarning": true,
  "failOnEmptyShould": false
}

Troubleshooting

TsMorph might have difficulties to read some dependencies. When it happens, a warn will be printed in the console. With jest, this warn might be quite big because its console also print the place where the warn has happened. (Switch to vitest ? :p)