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Reputation: 2937

Angular app composed of angular app (modules)

I'm trying to figure out the best way to structure a (inevitably large) but currently small angular application that my team will be working on. This will be rewrite of a large legacy system which is a nightmare to maintain.

The main goal here is to keep the project lean, easy to navigate and modify from development point of view. I am currently thinking of something like:

- src
    - main app module
        - core application code & ui
        - feature modules
            - feature 1 module
            - feature 2 module
            - ..

This seems to make sense, however this will inevitably get large and messy. Folder structure is bound to get deep and hard to navigate. Confusion will probably ensue.

What I am thinking of doing instead is something like:

- src
    - main app module
    - core application code & ui
    - feature module dependencies

- feature 1 app
- feature 2 app
- ...

So each large feature will be its own angular application, which will be developed in isolation, re-using any shared/common code as modules. It can be ran and tested separately and once complete, it will be installed using

npm install https://github.com/<feature name>

into the main application. It will then be imported into the main application as a single component.

The problem that I'm having at the moment is trying to figure out:

Has anyone faced this before?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 102

Answers (1)

BenKoshy
BenKoshy

Reputation: 35665

Is this a good idea?

If it's just you, then I recommend you keep it really simple. This has worked well for me in the past:

  • Stable branch / Main master branch

  • Feature branches (The branch upon which features are developed). When you're happy with those features then merge or rebase them back into the master branch - then you can delete the feature branch and move on to the next feature.

As far as angular apps and namespacing issues - I don't know enough to answer this.

Upvotes: 1

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