Modules

An easy and ergonomic way to scaffold your AdonisJS projects !

Introduction

@adonisjs-community/modules provides a set of commands based on adonisjs/core commands to help you quickly scaffold your AdonisJS projects into modules (more accurately into feature-based subdirectories). This allows you to organize your code in a modular way, making it easier to maintain and scale your application.

├── app
│  ├── auth
│  │  ├── controllers
│  │  ├── services
│  │  └── models
│  └── users
│     ├── exceptions
│     ├── factories
│     └── validators

Installation

You can install Modules in your AdonisJS project using the following command:

node ace add @adonisjs-community/modules

Getting Started

After installation, you can create a new module using the make:module command:

node ace make:module auth

This will create a new module named auth in the /app directory, as well as registering a new alias for the path resolution in your package.json file:

{
  "imports": {
    "...",
    "#auth/*": "./app/auth/*.js"
  }
}

That's it !

You can now reuse the @adonisjs/core and @adonisjs/lucid make commands with flag -m (--module) to create controllers, models, views, etc., within your module. For example:

node ace make:controller sign_in -m=auth
node ace make:controller sign_in --module auth

This command will create a new controller file named sign_in_controller.ts in the auth module.

At this point, you can refer to the AdonisJS commands documentation to learn more about the available commands and how to use them.

Particularities (@adonisjs/lucid)

When using the @adonisjs/lucid commands, you can also specify the module where you want to create your models, migrations, and factories.

That said, when generating a model, the -m alias will not work, as this alias is already used to specify if the codemods should generate a migration for the model.

Last thing to note, the generated migrations will be placed in the database/migrations directory and not inside the module directory. This is because migrations are global to the application and not specific to a module. Thus, order of execution is important, and having them in a single directory allows you to manage them more easily.

License

Modules is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.

Contributing

We welcome contributions to the Modules package! If you have ideas, suggestions, or improvements, please feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request.