bce.design

minimal tooling, essential dependencies, high productivity, no migrations, web component starter for non-trivial web applications

run

Launch with vite:

1. Install vite
2. git clone https://github.com/AdamBien/bce.design
3. Perform: npx vite

Launch with browsersync:

1. Install browsersync
2. git clone https://github.com/AdamBien/bce.design
3. cd app
4. Perform: browser-sync src -f src -b "google chrome" --no-notify

IDE

1. Visual Studio Code
2. Setup: JS imports
3. lit-html plugin for syntax highlighting inside html templates
4. redux devtools chrome extension

update dependencies

Checkout libs

external ingredients

1. lit-html
2. redux toolkit
3. vaadin router (suggestion / optional)
4. rollup (for updates / optional)

what is BCE?

Boundary Control Entity (BCE) pattern is used to organize elements according to their responsibilities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity-control-boundary.

Why it is needed? BCE was published in 1992 and since then described in various books and articles. Also: the boundary, control, entity icons are available in all modelling, drawing and designing tools.

The best of all: with BCE we don't have to discuss the naming anymore and therefore completely ignore the Parkinson's law of triviality :-).

unidirectional data flow

vaadin router

static hosting on Amazon S3

resources

https://github.com/adambien/mockend is useful as a mock backend with throttling functionality.

Mockend can slow down responses, what simplifies the testing of asynchronous view updates. Fetch-requests in the control layer can be delayed for test purposes.

Article: Web Components, Boundary Control Entity (BCE) and Unidirectional Data Flow with redux