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Building Applications with Spring 5 and Vue.js 2

You're reading from   Building Applications with Spring 5 and Vue.js 2 Build a modern, full-stack web application using Spring Boot and Vuex

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788836968
Length 590 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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James J. Ye James J. Ye
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Preface 1. Modern Web Application Development - This Is a New Era FREE CHAPTER 2. Vue.js 2 - It Works in the Way You Expected 3. Spring 5 - The Right Stack for the Job at Hand 4. TaskAgile - A Trello-like Task Management Tool 5. Data Modeling - Designing the Foundation of the Application 6. Code Design - Designing for Stability and Extensibility 7. RESTful API Design - Building Language Between Frontend and Backend 8. Creating the Application Scaffold - Taking off Like a Rocket 9. Forms and Validation - Starting with the Register Page 10. Spring Security - Making Our Application Secure 11. State Management and i18n - Building a Home Page 12. Flexbox Layout and Real-Time Updates with WebSocket - Creating Boards 13. File Processing and Scalability - Playing with Cards 14. Health Checking, System Monitoring - Getting Ready for Production 15. Deploying to the Cloud with Jenkins - Ship It Continuously 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Agile code design


Most of the time, when we talk about doing code design, or software design, the first thing that pops up is drawing UML diagrams. UML diagrams are part of a design, but it is not the design. So, what is code design exactly?

What is code design?

Robert C. Martin said the following in his book, Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns, and Practices (Martin, 2002):

The design of a software project is an abstract concept. It has to do with the overall shape and structure of the program as well as the detailed shape and structure of each module, class, and method. It can be represented by many different media, but its final embodiment is source code. In the end, the source code is the design.

Wait for a second, how can the source code be the design? This doesn't make sense, does it? The source code is part of the final software product itself. If source code were the design, we wouldn't need to do design anymore because we just need to write code. This seems absurd, right...

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