Howto: Configuration over Convention

Flowee is based on x principles:

configure and monkeypatch

To put it bluntly, there are 3 types of frameworks :

.1 framework which use conventions on how to write classes. functions and filenames. .1 frameworks which come with massive configurationfiles (modeldriven). .1 frameworks which do both

Flowee reads its configuration from a popular jsonformat called SWAGGER (the jsonmodel). This json model is being monkeypatched / decorated with flowee-specific data.

Where's the monkeypatched result

When flowee starts, it reads your model, which gets monkeypatched during init(). After that flowee :

• exposes a REST-call GET /model which serves the generated model
• writes the generated model to ./model.generated.json

You can inspect that, and copy/paste/modify generated settings into your own model.

Extensions

Extensions don't assume you know how to configure them, so they'll automatically monkeypatch your model. For example flowee-auth will monkeypatch your model with default passport-configurations.