README.md

Partlets

Partlets are self contained building block for web applications. These components help you to develop your application in a faster and more encapsulated way then the "old" single controller/template per page pattern.

MVC Like

Partlets could be used in a MVC approach when you have one Partlet per page. You can define all you requirements you need to display the content of a page.

HMVC Like

The strength of partlets are the "Preparable" base, so that they can define requirements. A requirement can be another partlet, so that you can build a single page out of different self contained and reusable blocks.

Page Structure with partlets

  +----------------------------------------------------------------+
  | Toplevel Page Partlet                                          |
  |----------------------------------------------------------------|
  |                                                                |
  | +--------------+  +------------------------------------------+ |
  | |Menu Partlet  |  |List Partlet                              | |
  | |--------------|  |------------------------------------------| |
  | |              |  | +--------------------------------------+ | |
  | |              |  | |ListItem Partlet                      | | |
  | |              |  | |--------------------------------------| | |
  | |              |  | |                                      | | |
  | |              |  | |                                      | | |
  | |              |  | |                                      | | |
  | |              |  | +--------------------------------------+ | |
  | |              |  |                                          | |
  | |              |  | +--------------------------------------+ | |
  | |              |  | |ListItem Partlet                      | | |
  | |              |  | |--------------------------------------| | |
  | |              |  | |                                      | | |
  | |              |  | |                                      | | |
  | |              |  | |                                      | | |
  | |              |  | |                                      | | |
  | |              |  | +--------------------------------------+ | |
  | +--------------+  +------------------------------------------+ |
  |                                                                |
  +----------------------------------------------------------------+

Resources

• https://speakerdeck.com/bastianhofmann/marrying-front-with-backend
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqULJBBEVQE
• http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Evolution-of-Code-Design-at-Facebook