Repo Structure

Obviously DLN (DevinLittle.net) is open source and I want to take a moment to explain the repository structure.

Apps

This directory contains the source code of all the clients DLN offers.

Chart

• Is currently empty But would have the helm chart

Crates

In FOSS projects it’s common to see a folder titled crates which is equivalent to the javascript packages directories. Crates contains rust libraries that other crates/binaries in this project rely on. The biggest/most important crate in this folder is the dln-core…More on that later in this book

Dist

The Dist dir contains everything related to packaging…Thats kinda it.

Docs

Docs contains this book. To note, there are docs directories inside some crates/bins in this project (ex. inside backend-common there is a docs dir), these include markdown files which are imported during the rustdoc stage, but that is just something I wanted to mention to clear up confusion.

Frontend

Currently the frontend directory contains only 1 subsequent directory, which is titled website, this just contains the web app for DevinLittle.net and maybe if I have more web frontends, try to have two different versions of the site, ect. idk tbh?

Packages

I explained this at crates

Scripts

Scripts is a little bit more complex to explain without overloading you with buzzwords but, its mainly used by the build and packaging processes so yeah.

Services

Contains all the backend services…That’s literally it. I couldn’t explain anymore than that. All services do get explained in a different chapter, so look there for more information on services.