Comment by codyb

Neat, that's some heady shit. I'll have to check Aspect oriented programming out.

It's a bit of work but I've been thinking the concept of interchange logic is a neat idea for cross layer concerns.

So for instance, I design my UI to exist in some fashion (I've been thinking contexts are actually a decent way to implement this model cause then you can swap them in and out in order to use them in different manners...)

So say, I've got some component which exists in the ForumContext, and it needs all the data to display for the forum.

So I build a ForumContext provider which is an interchange layer between my ForumApi and my ForumUI.

Then if it turns out I want to swap out the Api with another, all I have to do is create a new ForumContext provider which provides the same shape of data, and the User Interface doesn't need to change.

Alternatively if I need to shape the data in a new fashion, all I need to do is update my ForumContext provider to reshape the API data and I don't need to muss with the API at all (unless of course, I need new data in which case, yea of course).

It's not perfect, and React's docs seem to warn against use of contexts but I think you could make a decent architecture out of them potentially. And they can be a lot less boiler plate than a similar redux store by using the state hooks React provides.

I still have to build out some sort of proof of concept of my idea, it's essentially connected component trees again. But when half the components in my library are connected to the API directly you just end up with such a mess any time you need to either repurpose a component for any other use or switch a section of your app over to a new data store or api.

At the end of the day, it seems like no matter how hard you try, it's really just about finding the best worst solution ;-).

And yea, security is a doozy in general. I've been working on decoupling our permissions logic a bit lately since it's couple between records, permissions, and other shit at the moment. Leaves a lot of room for holes.