We’re migrating more and more logic from the server to the client. This makes for a better user experience but at the same time makes our client side applications more complex, harder to debug and to maintain.
We see an explosion of framework and tools to combat this complexity. Building application with Grunt, unit testing with Chai and Mocha, writing integration tests with Casper, dividing applications in modules with Require and structuring applications with Backbone/Marionette, Angular or Ember.
Though all this tech makes certain parts easier, it alone does not help to keep your application understandable, well structured and correctly designed for the problems it needs to solve.
Enter Domain Driven Design. It’s an approach to develop complex software applications. On the one hand, it’s a process to transform requirements into an actual product. On the other, it clearly describes how to structure applications and which design patterns and objects to use.
It’s the missing link to properly leverage all the tools our frameworks provide to create complex client-side applications.
This talk provides an overview of tools used to created single page apps, introduces Domain Driven Design and how to apply it building complex client-side JavaScript applications.
Presented at Fronteers Meetup - Hasselt, Belgium