Module naming conventions

[AstonJ]

@boydm

In general, I’ve been trying to follow the non-plural forms. The only exception has been the Scenic.Primitives and Scenic.Components modules, which are collections of helper files to instantiate those data structures.

@boydm

When it comes to Scenic, it made sense to follow the Phoenix pattern. An app will have a collection of scenes. So put those in the scenes folder. However, each module defines a single scene, so it would have a name like MyApp.Scene.Whatever .

Ah that makes total sense. (For some reason I was thinking about automatic pluralisation (and conventions) that happen in frameworks like Rails (and not in Phoenix) of modules/schemas etc, rather than the generated structure on creation.)

@boydm

lib/my_app_web/controllers/page_controller.ex contains MyAppWeb.PageController instead of MyAppWeb.Controller.Page or MyAppWeb.Controllers.Page

I quite like that too!

Thinking about it, and I remember it was discussed somewhere but not sure where now - does anyone know why in Phoenix we dropped the web folder for MyAppWeb? I think Web.Controller.Page or Web.Controllers.Page is much cleaner.