The world is NOT cruddy by design
summary
Argues that CRUD UIs and REST hide real behaviour and then shows practical refactorings: split read/write models, implement explicit action methods and commands, emit events and configure post published handlers, prefer mutators or GraphQL mutations to PATCHing fields, and replace tangled status fields with actions like cancel or fulfill. Cites scale: 15 PHP developers on ~1M lines and a past app with 190M registered users, and demonstrates easier debugging, authorization and evolution.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Start
- 0:33Cruddy by design
- 0:52Different projects
- 5:21Object oriented Five?
- 5:52Feature envy from Martin Fowler
- 6:21Read actions
- 7:46Ubiquitous language
- 9:42Eloquent event listener
- 12:13Post actions with events
- 13:54Vuex data flow
- 16:16REST - good standard?
- 19:56Extract actions to own controller if needed
- 20:27Command classes
- 21:22Typical controller write action
- 22:07Conclusion
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