BladeRunnerJS Glossary

Asset

We use the generic word Assets to describe all of the different types of content that can comprise an application. This includes:

• JavaScript Source
• HTML Templates
• CSS Stylesheets
• CSS Resources (e.g. Images, Typefaces, etc)
• I18N Properties Files
• XML Configuration

For more information see the concept section on Assets.

Asset-Containers

Asset-Containers represent the broad areas on disk where assets can be found by the BRJS model. The following are all asset-containers:

• Aspect
• BladeSet
• Blade
• Workbench
• Test Pack
• Library

Asset-Locations

Asset-Locations on the other hand represent the exact directories within an asset-container where assets can be found. The following are all asset-locations for example:

• resources
• src
• src-test

Asset-Type

See Asset.

Blade

Blades are at the heart of how BladeRunnerJS works. Each blade is a complete, individual, vertical slice of business functionality. They enable you to develop complex modular HTML5 applications that can be run and tested in isolation from the application as a whole. A blade encapsulates all the required resources – JavaScript, HTML, CSS, XML, images, etc – to implement a particular high level feature. For example, a blade might implement a map UI, a chat window, a charting module or an alerting mechanism. A blade usually (but not always) corresponds to a particular area of the display.

For more information see [/docs/concepts/blades].

Bundlable

An Asset-Location that can be bundled.

Bundles

Bundles represent a number of the same asset-type that have been bundled together in order to be served to the web browser or as your application deployment package.

Linked-Asset

Assets that contain references to other assets that should also be bundled are known as linked-assets, and in BladeRunnerJS these include the following asset types:

• JavaScript Source
• HTML Templates
• XML Configuration

Seed

An Asset entry point to be analyzed as part of the bundling process.

See Bundlers.

Source-Modules

JavaScript Source is a special type of linked-asset known as a source-module. Source-Modules are addressable using a require path, and usually relate to a single JavaScript file on disk, but a single source-module may also be composed from multiple JavaScript files too.