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What if the monolith has a plug-in system with caveats made obvious to the end user, and plugins that work especially well are from time to time brought in as first-party?
For the last few years I’ve been strongly swaying from “monolith tools” to “plugin everything”. I don’t think either approach is actually sustainable. Likely need something that’s a mix. Not sure what it would look like though.
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Yeah that's a model I think could work. Another problem comes with exposing plugins in a monolith. The API surface can be massive and prevents being able to make large changes, which is one of the compelling reason for a monolith to begin with.
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What if you had a single tool with a whole bunch of features and a system of downloadable modules you could activate via run-time scripts?
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Having to assemble JavaScript legos just to get basic tooling working is one of the pillars of JavaScript Fatigue and makes it less accessible.
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Similarly, I'd like to see more officially endorsed "stacks" or "layers" of plugins/tools as a common, well-supported and featureful starting point, but keep a small core and ejection pathways for when people outgrow the official setup.
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Yeah I think I agree. What’s hard is defining the point that a use case has “outgrown”. Ideally a tool should be able to scale.
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"pluggable monolith core"
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Sounds like a new metal genre :D
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Plugin-based system with a default set of plugins that can be disabled individually.
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hapijs has done a
job providing a rich plugin experience on top of what some might call a monolith of a framework. Allowing plugins to express their order relative to each other is so useful at scale. Patchbay's plugin system "depject" is novel too!https://github.com/ssbc/patchbay Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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