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Hi everyone! I’m new to CBRA and newer to Packwerk. I’ve been working on componentizing our rails app at work into domain areas via the CBRA approach. I just found Stephan Hagemann’s latest leanpub work and purchased it. Now I’m questioning my approach.
I haven’t read Stephen’s latest work — can you relate what in particular you’re questioning?
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Using Gems and Engines to componentize a rails app. The process for packwerk seems so much easier to break the app into domains instead.
I’ve started down the gem/engine approach, already. It’s been good for discovering some seams, but I think I want to throw it all away and start over with Packwerk now.
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Shopify is using a hybrid approach with light use of engines (less involved than the CBRA approach) in combination with packwerk.
Engines just mainly for setting up autoload paths and initializers (other features can be opted in to step by step), no per-engine gemfiles. Engines are packages (called components), but more packages exist within them that are not engines.