Thoughts for modules hierarchy

[DamnClin]

Just wanted to share my current thoughts for modules hierarchy. I would like to build something were contributors just have to set:

• The feature of a module (ex: react-core and angular-core are in the clientfeature);
• Dependencies to modules or features (ex: cucumber-authentication depends on authentication feature and cucumber module).

From that I would like to build that kind of structure:

{
  levels: [
    {
      level: 0,
      elements: [
        {
          type: "MODULE",
          slug: "init"
        },
        {
          type: "MODULE",
          slug: "infinitest"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      level: 1,
      elements: [
        {
          type: "FEATURE",
          slug: "java-build-tool",
          modules: [
            {
              slug: "maven",
              dependencies: [
                {
                  type: "MODULE",
                  slug: "init"
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              slug: "gradle",
              dependencies: [
                {
                  type: "MODULE",
                  slug: "init"
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      level: 2,
      elements: [
        {
          type: "MODULE",
          slug: "java-base",
          dependencies: [
            {
              type: "FEATURE",
              slug: "java-build-tool"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

From that we can build multiple features:

• A landscape screen to display modules organization;
• A wizard screen: you select the modules you want (if a dependency is missing it is selected if it's a module or you are asked to select one if it's a feature). You have a form with all properties at once and you build your app in one go;
• Automatic generation for a CI that will validate all modules using the shortest possible path.

[pascalgrimaud]

@DamnClin : can you explain the difference between the 2 types plz? MODULE vs FEATURE ?

[DamnClin]

A feature is a group of modules. The idea is that adding maven and gradle makes no sense. Same, to add java base I want a java dependency management, I don't care if it's maven or gradle

[DamnClin]

This was done in #3022