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110 lines
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<h1>flecks</h1>
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<p>
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Flecks is an exceptionally extensible fullstack application production system. Its true purpose
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is to make application development a more joyful endeavor. Intelligent defaults combined with
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a highly dynamic structure encourage consistency while allowing you to easily express your own
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opinions.
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</p>
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<!-- <p>For documentation, see <a href="ADDME">the documentation site</a>.</p> -->
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## ✴️ BE WARY ✴️
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This is largely untested software. There are undoubtedly many bugs that haven't yet been found.
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I reserve the right to break all semantic versioning guarantees as long as there is a critical need for fundamental changes that significantly improve the project's architecture, performance, or address security vulnerabilities, and these modifications are deemed essential for the long-term stability, innovation, and overall betterment of the software. The project is young enough that I can get away with that. This will be revisited.
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**You've been warned!**
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Have fun! ☺️
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## Table of Contents
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1. [Install](#install)
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2. [Introduction](#introduction)
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3. [Concepts](#concepts)
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## Install
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Quickly scaffold a new application monorepo:
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```
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yarn create @flecks/app my-new-app
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```
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or with `npm`:
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```
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npx @flecks/create-app my-new-app
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```
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---
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Quickly scaffold a new fleck:
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```
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yarn create @flecks/fleck my-new-fleck
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```
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or with `npm`:
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```
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npx @flecks/create-fleck my-new-fleck
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```
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## Introduction
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Modern features you expect — like
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- linting
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- testing
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- HMR (even on server 😳)
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- SSR
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Things you don't expect — like
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- Dynamic CLI (hooks)
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- Dynamic REPL (hooks)
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- Dynamic build (include `@flecks/react` into your fleck and watch it learn to compile JSX, even on the server side)
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- Freedom to split up e.g. Redux applications into discrete slices while relying on flecks to automatically handle things like middleware, reducer composition, server/localStorage hydration, etc.
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- [Write a hook](packages/core/build/dox/concepts/hooks.md) and surprise someone else.
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## Concepts
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### Eeez vereh flecksible 🥴
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At its core, flecks is a collection of modules that use [hooks](packages/core/build/dox/concepts/hooks.md) to orchestrate everything from building your project to handling the minutia of what happens when your application starts, when a client connects, defining database models, and more.
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Just to give you an idea of the power of hooks, some will be listed here:
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- [`@flecks/web/server.stream.html`](https://github.com/cha0s/flecks/blob/gh-pages/hooks.md#fleckshttpserverstreamhtml)
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> Compose the server-side HTML stream. This is how SSR slides in.
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- [`@flecks/docker.containers`](https://github.com/cha0s/flecks/blob/gh-pages/hooks.md#flecksdockercontainers)
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> Define [Docker](https://www.docker.com/) containers to automatically come up next to your app. See [`@flecks/redis`'s implementation](packages/redis/src/containers.js). `@flecks/docker` also generates `Dockerfile` and `docker-compose.yml` and provides the [CLI command](https://github.com/cha0s/flecks/blob/gh-pages/hooks.md#fleckscorecommands) `flecks docker` for even more.
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- [`@flecks/web/server.request.route`](https://github.com/cha0s/flecks/blob/gh-pages/hooks.md#fleckshttpserverrequestroute)
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> Define [Express](http://expressjs.com/) middleware that runs when an HTTP route is hit.
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- [... and many more on the hook reference page](https://github.com/cha0s/flecks/blob/gh-pages/hooks.md)
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### The `build` directory
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Flecks applications contain a `build` directory with a `flecks.yml` that defines the flecks use to compose the project, as well as build-time configuration.
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Flecks strives to provide powerful defaults that minimize the need to override configuration.
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The simplest example of a flecks server application:
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```yml
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'@flecks/core': {}
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'@flecks/server': {}
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```
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Yes, that's it! In fact, when you use `yarn create @flecks/app`, that's what is generated for you by default.
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Obviously, this doesn't do much on its own. It simply bootstraps flecks and runs a server application with no interesting work to do. It's just a jumping-off point.
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[Learn even more about the build directory](packages/core/build/dox/concepts/build.md).
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---
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Documentation is a work in progress ❤️
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