Overview of App Accelerator
App Accelerator is a tool that Alana uses to provide Cody and his peers with a vetted, approved, preconfigured jumping-off point in their language or framework of choice. With App Accelerator, Alana can handle repetitive, low-value tasks such as choosing a technology and ensuring its interoperability and compatibility with other apps and enterprise standards. This frees up Cody and his developer peers to deliver business value with great software.
App Accelerator consists of several APIs and interfaces geared specifically to either Alana the architect’s or Cody the coder’s persona:
Figure 2.5 – App Accelerator architecture
Alana starts with a Git repo containing the skeleton of a project. In addition to boilerplate code, pre-approved libraries, and standardized documentation and testing structure, this project contains a special YAML file called, by convention, accelerator.yaml. This file contains the...
