gabrieletassoni / thecore

WebApps builder, crafted to promote development driven by atomic components.

Thecore

Thecore is made of ATOMS or, well, Atomic Components. The RoR App, the one made using rails new command, will become just a wrapper which depends only on the Atomic Components you need. Thecore is a set of tools, best practices and guidelines aimed at creating bigger WebApps without focusing on how to do it.

It's way better to focus on what to do than on how to do it, don't you think?

But... What are ATOMS?

• Self Contained engines: the Atomic Component must be developed following some guidelines which are documented in this repository.
• Pluggable Components: just make your RoR WebApp or another Atomic Component depend on an Atomic Component and it will inherit the funcitonalities of the Atomic Component, you don't need them anymore? just remove the dependency from Gemfile or gemspec and your WebApp will continue to work as before, but without the functionality provided by the Atomic Component and without breaking the business logic.
• Tested Components: once tested for one application, they are tested for every other applications, no need to do regression tests on your app if it includes (say... depends) on functionalities provided by an Atomic Component.
• Easily Extandable: Atomic Components can be improved in their functionalities by adding new ones, but even better, they can be extended in other Atomic Components which will depend on the original one, without the need to touch well established code.

Why

As a freelance full-stack developer I always needed smart tools and methods to manage scalable projects. During the years I started to make choices, studying languages, patterns and technologies that were getting my attention because of their smartness.

Here you can find this efforts-turned-code thing: Thecore has been used and tested in different professional projects and always proved smart enough to let me manage them even if they looked too big for one person; Thecore is just the most important aspect of all the ATOMS you can find in other repositories which follow Thecore Guidelines, the foundation on which all the other atomic components grow. On github I'll put all of them, or, at least the general ones, the ones which doesn't have a strong characterization on a process peculiar to one of my customers.

Philosphy

I always preferred to invest some more time in finding the best tool for what I need and compile a toolbox of helpful technologies, rather than start coding mindlessly. Thecore has grown and proved to be a time saver, it surely could be enhanced and as long as I keep using it for my day by day job, it will grow more, but if you feel that RoR, sane defaults, atomic engines (components) sounds good to you, don't be scared to pull and make Thecore even more useful.

Thecore ATOMS

Here you can find all Thecore ATOMS I published for public usage. They cover all the main aspects of a Thecore Application, from out of the box APIs, Authentication, Backend UX and even interaction with Zebra RFID/Barcode scanners.

Partecipate

If you like to partecipate on this project, please do so; file bugs, pull and modify code, give suggestions...

Support

Hire me as a full-stack developer for your RoR projects, I will use Thecore technology and show you how good it is. This is a straightforward way to support this project.