Bladesets provide a way of grouping related blades so that they can share common code or resources.
Note: In future releases, bladesets will be optional. For now, a Blade must reside within a bladeset
Benefits of Bladesets
As well as sharing code, bladesets can also share assets such as styles, HTML templates and images. This allows you to create logical groupings of blades that display information in a consistent way. For instance: you would use a bladeset to share the custom code for numerical formatting in a set of blades, or to house a common date-chooser configuration.
When creating code, you should aim to keep as much of it as possible within your individual blades. This enables the blades to operate separately from one another. However, a benefit of using bladesets is that if there are common pieces of code that are shared between different blades, you can move the shared code into the parent bladeset.
As well as sharing code between different blades, you may find that you sometimes need to share code between different bladesets. Bladesets are designed to be independent of the app in which they run, so in order to do this, you’ll need to put it in a library. To find out how to do this, see How to use Libraries.
How to Use Bladesets
You can create new aspects on the BRJS dashboard or via the command line interface by executing the following instruction:
$ ./brjs create-bladeset <app-name> <bladeset-name>
For example:
$ ./brjs create-bladeset brjstodo todo
Where Next?
The creating bladesets docs will give you more information on creating bladesets and what you will find in a bladeset directory.
Once you have created your bladesets, you can start creating blades to go in them.
To understand how to create and edit libraries, see Using Libraries.