Core Concepts

Introduction

Silvertree is a general purpose IoC, DI library to help you build modular, testable and maintainable applications. It is a set of libraries that utilizes already existed libraries or implementing some specific features.

The whole point of this library is to provide a simple, extendable, testable and robust way to build applications by invoking/creating and booting services/entities only when they are needed. It allows you to build a hybrid monolithic/microservice application architecture with ease.

Features

• No magic — everything is explicit: no "magic" string or behavior
• Modular — you can split your application into modules, which can be imported into other modules
• Testable — you can test your application, providing mocks for any service
• Minimal boilerplate — no need to write a lot of code to get things done
• Extendable — you can extend any part of the library (even internal DI mechanism and vendor modules)
• Dependency Injection — inject dependencies into any type of entities utilizing custom factories
• Selective booting — create only what you need
• Incremental booting — boot services, using content from other services
• Async booting — async and sync factories are separated for better performance
• TypeScript first — written in TypeScript, with full type support, but can be used with plain JavaScript. Also, has support for mjs out of the box.
• Toolchain agnostic — you can use any toolchain you want. It can work with bundlers (webpack, rollup/vite, parcel, tsc, etc.), with or without mangle/obfuscation, or without them at all.
• Platform-agnostic — you can use silvertree packages (which is not specially made for backend, like http) in your frontend app.