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This project is part of the @thi.ng/umbrella monorepo.

About

Minimal DI / life cycle container for stateful app components.

Inspired by Stuart Sierra's component framework for Clojure/ClojureScript.

Status

ALPHA - bleeding edge / work-in-progress

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Installation

yarn add @thi.ng/system
// ES module
<script type="module" src="https://unpkg.com/@thi.ng/system?module" crossorigin></script>

// UMD
<script src="https://unpkg.com/@thi.ng/system/lib/index.umd.js" crossorigin></script>

Package sizes (gzipped, pre-treeshake): ESM: 369 bytes / CJS: 430 bytes / UMD: 536 bytes

Dependencies

API

Generated API docs

TODO

Example system

import { defSystem, ILifecycle } from "@thi.ng/system";

// Step 1: Define the structure / components of your system

interface FooSys {
    db: DB;
    cache: Cache;
    logger: Logger;
    dummy: ILifecycle;
}

// Step 2: Provide component implementations
// Components can be classes or any object implementing the
// `ILifecycle` interface...

class Logger implements ILifecycle {
    info(msg: string) {
        console.log(`[info] ${msg}`);
    }
    async start() {
        this.info("start logger");
        return true;
    }
    async stop() {
        this.info("stop logger");
        return true;
    }
}

// DB requires a logger & cache

class DB implements ILifecycle {
    constructor(protected logger: Logger, protected cache: Cache) {}

    async start() {
        this.logger.info("start db");
        return true;
    }
    async stop() {
        this.logger.info("stop db");
        return true;
    }
}

class Cache implements ILifecycle {
    constructor(protected logger: Logger) {}

    async start() {
        this.logger.info("start cache");
        return true;
    }
    async stop() {
        this.logger.info("stop cache");
        return true;
    }
}

// Step 3: Define system & component dependencies
// This will initialize all components in dependency order

// - All arg types and dependency IDs are inferred / type checked
// - `System` itself implements `ILifecycle`, so can be used to form
//   nested systems

const FOO = defSystem<FooSys>({
    db: {
        factory: (deps) => new DB(deps.logger, deps.state),
        deps: ["logger", "state"],
    },
    logger: { factory: () => new Logger() },
    cache: {
        factory: ({ logger }) => new Cache(logger),
        deps: ["logger"],
    },

    dummy: {
        factory: ({ logger }) => ({
            async start() {
                logger.info("start dummy");
                return true;
            },
            async stop() {
                logger.info("stop dummy");
                return true;
            },
        }),
        deps: ["logger"]
    }
});

// Step 4: Asynchronously start all components in dependency order
FOO.start();
// [info] start logger
// [info] start cache
// [info] start dummy
// [info] start db

// Step 5 (optional): Async shutdown all (in reverse order)
FOO.stop();
// [info] stop db
// [info] stop dummy
// [info] stop cache
// [info] stop logger

// Calls stop() & if successful followed by start()
FOO.reset();

System visualization

In order for a System to initialize its components in the correct order, an internal dependency graph is constructed. This graph not required any further after system construction, however can be useful for debugging and documentation purposes.

For example, we can utilize the @thi.ng/dgraph-dot package to create Graphviz source file to visualize the dependencies between the system's components.

import { toDot } from "@thi.ng/dgraph-dot";

console.log(toDot(FOO.graph, { id: (node) => node }));
// digraph g {
// "db"[label="db"];
// "logger"[label="logger"];
// "state"[label="state"];
// "dummy"[label="dummy"];
// "db" -> "logger";
// "db" -> "state";
// "state" -> "logger";
// "dummy" -> "logger";
// }

Resulting visualization:

graphviz output

Authors

Maintainer

Contributors

If this project contributes to an academic publication, please cite it as:

@misc{thing-system,
  title = "@thi.ng/system",
  author = "Karsten Schmidt and others",
  note = "https://thi.ng/system",
  year = 2020
}

License

© 2020 Karsten Schmidt // Apache Software License 2.0