Module naming conventions

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My perspective on MyAppWeb.Controllers.Page:

  • Page module
  • in the MyAppWeb.Controllers “namespace”
  • therefore I expect Page to be a single controller - one among many in the MyAppWeb.Controllers “namespace”.

So the pluralization isn’t in the service of a good folder or module name but to create the sense of a namespace.

Now when it comes to the wisdom of having separate MyAppWeb.Controllers and MyAppWeb.Views namespaces given how tightly coupled controllers and views tend to be - that is a separate discussion (as I recall there are technical reasons for this as views require very different build processing from controllers - I’ve never been fond of the Rails convention of collecting “like things” under the same namespace (when we are not dealing with a (standard) library); I’m more of a put things that work as a cohesive whole under the same namespace sort of guy).

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