catstack

🐈 🐈 🐈 A modular framework for teams working on production web apps.

table of contents

features

demos

concepts

bin

api

install

inspiration

sponsored by Enspiral Root Systems

inspired by ahdinosaur/mad-science-handbook

for previous version, see catstack@1

features

• provides development architecture which linearly scales complexity as your app evolves.
• provides prescriptive opinions to bootstap teams onto a consistent development platform across projects.
• everything is a depject module that can be overridden or combined.
• app file structure maps to app modules, making it easy to separate concerns and get things done.
• provides full stack app server for both development and production.
• consistent concepts across front and back end.

demos

• catstack.herokuapp.com: this repo's ./example deployed to heroku

concepts

• modules
• streams
• services
• state, actions, effects, html views
• data logs and views
• commands

bin

• generate
• dev
• server
• test
• lint

gen

TODO

generate new project

catstack generate:project

start

dev

starts development server

catstack dev server

server

starts production server

catstack server

test

runs pull-test tests

can optionally take a glob

npm run test -- './todos/**/*.test.js'

default glob is ./**/*.test.js ignoring node_modules

lint

checks for standard style

can optionally take a glob

npm run lint -- './todos/**/*.js'

default glob is ./**/*.js ignoring node_modules

directory structure

the catstack files are organized in the following hierarchy:

${topic} / ${type} / ${module}.js

• config/
  • config/index.js
  • config/${ NODE_ENV }.js
• ${ topic }/
• tests are any files that end in .test.js

topic overview

in contrast to frameworks like Rails which split our app into directories for each "type" of file (models, views, controllers), our app is split into directories for each conceptual topic, where each topic contains the various types of files within that topic.

each topic directory may contain any of:

• state.js: exports initial store state
• action/*.js: exports store actions
• effect/*.js: exports effects
• getter/*.js: exports reselect getters
• page/*.js: exports routed views
• element/*.js: exports presentation views
• helper/*.js: exports helper functions
• service.js: exports vas service

${ topic }/state.js

// cats/state.js`
module.exports = {
  create: () => ({
    init: () => ({
      model: {},
      effect: null
    })
  })
}

/${ topic }/action/*.js

// cats/action/create.js
module.exports = {
  create: () => ({
    update: (model, action) => {
      console.log('cat:create', model, action)
      return model
    }
  })
}

/${ topic }/effect/*.js

// cats/effect/fetch.js
module.exports = {
  create: () => ({
    run: (model, effect) => {
      console.log('cat:fetch', effect)
    }
  })
}

/${ topic }/get/*.js

// cats/get/cats.js
module.exports = {
  create: () => (state) => state.cats
}

/${ topic }/page/*.js

// cats/page/show.js
module.exports = {
  needs: {
    'app.layout.main': 'first',
    cats: {
      'element.profile': 'first',
      'get.show': 'first'
    }
  },
  create: (api) => ({
    route: '/cats/:catId',
    layout: api.layout.main,
    get: api.cats.get.show,
    view: api.cats.element.profile
  })
}

/${ topic }/element/*.js

// cats/element/profile.js
module.exports = {
  needs: {
    'inu.html': 'first'
  },
  create: (api) => ({
    view: (cat) => api.html`
      <div>${cat.name}</div>
    `
  })
}

/${ topic }/service.js

// cats/service.js
module.exports = {
  needs: {
    data: 'first'
  },
  manifest: {
    all: 'source',
    get: 'async'
  },
  create: function (api) {
    const cats = [{
      name: 'Fluffy'
    }, {
      name: 'Zoe'
    }]

    return {
      methods: { all, get }
    }

    function all () {
      return pull.values(cats)
    }

    function get (id, cb) {
      cb(null, data[id])
    }
  }
})

FAQ

how do i do relations between models?

implement them in your getters.js file as selectors.

in the future, we should extract common relations into helper creators.

license

The Apache License

Copyright © 2016-2017 Michael Williams

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.