I looked into the lemmy src, and what is supposed to be a CRUD API has several layers of abstraction. Same at work, where we have hexagonally structured apps where following any sort of logic is literally impossible. What are your thoughts?

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    1 year ago

    mind if i ask what ‘hexagonally structured’ means? i have never heard of this and cant imagine what it could be :D

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      The hexagonal architecture or onion architecture is oversimplified as having everything bolt onto a core of business logic via designed and designated interfaces to abstract away implementation details on either side.

      Say you have a web app which takes requests from the outside world and based on those requests it performs some business logic (tracking accounts, orders, etc).

      In hexagonal architecture you’d maybe implement such a thing like:

      Web app handler -> command interface -> message bus -> command handler (business logic) -> repository interface -> repository (Postgres, mongo, memory, email)

      What this lets you do is split apart the app at the interfaces into separate modules which can be reasoned about and tested separately.

      End of the day you don’t care what is happening on the other side of the interface as long as whatever it is follows the interface specification.

      Building applications like this meants that if we wanted to extend our app with an API and a Real-time Websocket service, we can (usually) just write a handler to turn that request into a command for the command interface and be done with it.

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        1 year ago

        cool, thanks for the explanation :) i am familiar with onion architecture, i just never heard of hexagonal arch. i assumed there would be some difference

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          1 year ago

          Assuming I’m remembering correctly, they’re both very similar. To the point that they’re basically the same concept by different sources and therefore have some wiggle in interpretation

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      adapter-core domain logic- port

      basically you make an onion, where the core domain logic handles well, your actual logic the adapter handles requests and makes them understandable for your core part the port part is your db or anything like that, it’s usually an implementation of an interface