Building a Full-Stack Component

"As modern software systems grow in complexity, they naturally become more modularized and distributed. Rather than maintaining a single, monolithic codebase, development teams increasingly structure their applications as loosely-coupled components. This approach allows teams to work autonomously, focusing on specific areas of the system without the need to grasp its entirety. Traditionally, modularity in software has been driven by technical considerations - separating frontend and backend services based on their runtimes, technologies, or infrastructure needs. While this separation has its advantages, it also creates friction."

"Build in AI speed - Compose enterprise-grade applications, features, and components Full-stack components introduce a different way of thinking about modularity. Instead of splitting software along technical boundaries, they encapsulate entire units based on business goals. A full-stack component includes both the frontend UI and the backend logic required to power it, enabling teams to deliver complete features without dependencies on other teams. This approach abstracts away infrastructure details, allowing developers to think in terms of product functionality rather than system architecture."

"Using "Harmony" for the integration of full-stack components Harmony is a lightweight library built to streamline the integration of composable software. It enables teams to combine independently delivered full-stack components, called "aspects", to form unified, cohesive platforms. A single "aspect" component can provide multiple entry files, one for each runtime, whether it's the browser runtime, Node.js runtime, and possibly, other runtimes. For example, see the files of the "People" feature implemented as a Bit aspect component: .└── people"

Modern systems grow modular and distributed, with teams structuring applications as loosely-coupled components that let teams work autonomously on specific system areas. Traditional modularity separated frontend and backend by runtime and infrastructure, which creates friction through API waits, deployment synchronization, and layer mismatches. Full-stack components encapsulate frontend UI and backend logic around business goals, enabling teams to deliver complete features without depending on others and abstracting infrastructure concerns. Harmony is a lightweight library that composes independently delivered full-stack components, called aspects, into unified platforms. Aspects can expose multiple runtime entry files, supporting browser, Node.js, and other runtimes.

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