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Leadline Architecture Design

Overview

Leadline Architecture Design (Hereafter LAD) is a set of architectural Best practices that have proven themselves well in the development of modern Front-end applications. Their use allows you to get a maintainable codebase without having deep knowledge of software architecture.

LAD was inspired by the principles of Feature-Sliced Design, an architectural methodology for scaffolding front-end applications that focuses on organizing code through rules and conventions to make projects more understandable and structured.

What problems does Leadline Architecture Design solve?

  1. Sufficiently high-quality architecture:

    LAD provides a set of patterns that for an average developer in an average project allow to increase:

    • Code understandability
    • Reliability
    • Reusability

    The very fact of implementing LAD patterns increases the chances of your project not dying from uncontrolled complexity growth.

  2. Standardization:

    LAD introduces a set of concepts and patterns that create a common language for all your developers. The transition of a developer from project to project is significantly simplified.

  3. Expertise increase:

    As a result of diving into LAD, a developer should understand the basic principles underlying software architecture and learn to make architectural decisions based on the situation.

    LAD is not the final stage, it is a starting point for creating a better custom architecture.

Leadline Architecture Design Values

In the process of working on Leadline Architecture Design, we adhere to the following principles:

Pragmatism

Architecture is a complex thing. Therefore, it is often perceived not as effective practices, but as a set of magical rituals.

In Leadline Architecture Design, each pattern has efficiency justification, applicability boundaries and connections with other patterns.

This way, you can choose the set of patterns needed specifically for your project. No more, no less!

Graduality

All projects are different! A small application doesn’t need sophisticated architecture. But a small application will sooner or later become big!

Leadline Architecture Design is designed so that your project’s architecture evolves along with your project’s needs!

Suitable for both beginners and advanced developers

Every developer has their own level of understanding of software architecture. We understand this, so LAD can be used in two ways:

For beginners: the documentation has guides on how to use LAD without deep understanding of each pattern. This way, a developer will be able to get sufficiently maintainable code without deep understanding of the topic.

For advanced developers: each pattern has a description of what principles it works on. What conditions and limitations it has. You can also dive into terminology to build a holistic system of understanding application-level architecture.

Based on this, you will be able to choose the ideal set of patterns for your situation, or modify them if needed, with full understanding of the matter.

Non-contradictory system

We are tired of contradictions in software development topics. The main goal of LAD is to combine all development principles into a single non-contradictory system. It will logically accommodate DRY, YAGNI, OOP, FP, SOLID, GRASP, Clean Architecture, DDD.

But how can you combine the incompatible? We will use the main principle of architecture “Everything is a Trade-off” for this.

What’s next?

All documentation is built as a sequential set of articles, you just need to move from top to bottom through the sidebar menu.

First of all, you should familiarize yourself with the “Quick Start” section, after which you will be able to immediately get benefits from using LAD.