dimitarvp

dimitarvp

Different ways of structuring code - what do you think is best?

“How to make and maintain a project in framework X with the minimum amount of files and boilerplate” :smiley:

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Ted

Ted

This was one of the main problems with the first popular MVC web framework for Java: Struts1.

It’s hard to understate how popular Struts1 was in the Java community circa 2003.

Therefore, it grew rapidly and organically, and unfortunately this resulted in all roads leading to struts-config.xml.

The file could balloon to thousands of lines, especially if you wanted readable XML, and merge conflicts were a constant source of worry on larger projects.

Exadra37

Exadra37

Well with the minimum amount files resonates to me as that huge files of code that do not separate concerns and actions.

I am not really a fan of one file to handle all the actions one a resource, but this is often the case, but what pisses the heck of me is when the files goes to the thousands of lines and deals with many resources… it’s just a nightmare and a sink hole of our time :wink:

But probably the minimum amount of files you are referring to are not related with the code for the project itself?

AstonJ

AstonJ

^^ Sounds like a good topic for a thread :smiley:

Rails championed a simple MVC structure which many frameworks also adopted. However I really liked Volt’s idea of building your app as a series of components. Something that bugs me is when I am working on something then have to jump to various folders. I know editors like Vim can make it easier but sometimes I just want to use the side panel file browser to get where I want to.

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