dogstack

🐶 🐶 🐶 a popular-choice grab-bag framework for teams working on production web apps

🐱 see also catstack, dogstack's smarter, slimmer, more cunning partner in crime

features

• is omakase, modules are hand-picked by expert chefs to deliver a consistent taste throughout
• provides a forkable example to get you up and running in no time!
• abstracts away the app plumbing that you don't want to write again, and let's you focus on features
• prescribes enough opinion to reduce friction for your team
• includes modules for the user experience you really need: registration flow, sign in flow, group management, role-based access controls, etc

examples

• root-systems/dogstack-example: a simple forkable example with common boilerplate
• root-systems/cobuy: our open source product for consumer groups to coordinate buying quality goods for a cheaper price
• ahdinosaur/resourceful: an experiment in personal inventory management

getting started

to get started, fork dogstack-example

stack

framework: dogstack

plugin ecosystem:

• dogstack-agents

see stack.md for the full set of modules included in dogstack.

distributions

• TODO user interface
• TODO universal user interface
• TODO data services
• TODO full stack (ui + services)
• TODO mobile using [react-native]
• TODO desktop using [electron]

conventions

• File structure: topic -> type -> name
• Pluralize by adding 's', no exceptions

guides

• How to install Node.js
• How to create a new dogstack app
• How to setup a Postgres database
• TODO how to do authentication for your app
• How to do presentational components
• TODO how to create real-time data services
• TODO how to do authorization for your app
• TODO how to deploy your app
• TODO how to test your app using executable specifications
• TODO how to setup scheduled server tasks
• TODO how to send emails from your app
• TODO how to do a payment in your app

prior art

• architecture by @ahdinosaur on previous private projects
• https://github.com/jlongster/react-redux-universal-hot-example0
• https://github.com/react-boilerplate/react-boilerplate
• general discussions with teammates