ctx-core

A composable monorepo web-service/front-end toolkit that emphasizes:

• starter apps & quick prototyping with a scalable architecture
• {up,down}-scalable complexity
• functional-dominant hybrid style of programming
• data flow
• simple & composable interfaces
• reuse across projects
• anti-fragile development

Install

NPM packages

The simplest way to use @ctx-core packages is to simply use npm to install them.

Forking ctx-core

If you want to fork ctx-core for your own usage:

• fork this repository
• pnpm install to set up the workspace
• uses pnpm workspaces for package management
• uses changesets for versioning

Usage

Install individual packages:

pnpm add @ctx-core/<package-name>

Or fork the monorepo and use pnpm install to bootstrap all packages.

Please send pull requests.

Technologies

• TypeScript (ES2022, strict mode)
• pnpm workspaces
• Svelte / SvelteKit
• Solid.js

Techniques

• Reactive Programming
• Explicit Naming Conventions

Explicit Domain Driven Design

"The Map is not the territory"

—Alfred Korzybski

"All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky"

—Joel Spolsky

I view software as a creative model of Existence. Software, in emulating other entities in Existence, also exists as entities.

Language, using a schema, provides a system of abstraction enabling one to model something. Language is context sensitive & composable. With the Language tool, we craft systems of illusion, intelligence, & life.

Naming Conventions

Source Code is a UX to interface with the raw machine.

The affordances provided by programming languages allows one to:

• name abstractions
• create patterns & metaphor
• express one's model of Existence
• create a tool to perform work

Optionality — Degrees of Freedom over Forecasting

I prefer to have optionality over compound planing (assumptions, based on assumptions, …). We live in a complex & interconnected existence; with the potential for a diverse set of outcomes. Complexity, interconnectivity, novelty, & creation is beyond any single entity's ability to effectively forecast.

Language evolves as our conscious understanding evolves…& vice versa. Ambiguity is a tool of consciousness to compel us to explore the dissonance in our current model of Existence. Follow the rabbit hole…and a richer Existence awaits.

Monorepo

I chose to use a monorepo:

• to reduce development friction in managing my various projects
• to utilize patterns across my projects

Monorepos are, once again, gaining favor as a way to efficiently manage disparate projects. I choose to use monorepos across my projects to create value & optionality for my clients and to model abstract patterns to continuously improve the products.

Acknowledgements & Gratitude

Thank you to all of you adventurous spirits who push the edge, cross boundaries, & create convergence to enrich our collective Existence.

Thank you to those who have failed many times, yet never gave up in following your bliss.

Thank you to everybody whom I have had a pleasure to work with & who has graced my life. I have learned much from your perspectives & hope to continue to be blessed by your physical presence & your presence in my heart.

Thank you to all beautiful souls who grace us with this immersive & thoroughly interesting world.

The Censible Team

Thank you to the Censible team for the inspiration, willingness, & for being the initial sponsor for ctx-root.

A special thank to to: @pmart123, @snuggs, @cristhiandick, @albertopontonio, @strictlymomo, @mrbernnz, @katezaps, @tmornini, @ebransom for your collaboration, brilliance, attitude, & friendship.