Eric Peterson talks about “Modules Make Your Projects Have Superpowers” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. He is a CFML and Javascript developer at O.C. Tanner in Salt Lake City, Utah and more recently with Ortus Solutions (ColdBox, CommandBox, etc.). Eric is also one of the speakers at CFObjective Conference.

Show notes

What exactly is a Module?

A self contained bundle of code

Encapsulated

Similar idea in other languages

WP Plugin

Ruby Gem

NPM package

What is ColdBox?

MVC framework

Why use Modules?

Save time by dropping in a module to your app

Where can I find pre-written Modules

Forgebox.io

Creating a new module from existing reusable code in minutes

Why share your modules as open source code

Saving timing with Module conventions - module superpowers

Using Modules outside of ColdBox

Sharing modules between other frameworks

Cool API examples

Fast versioning of APIs with Modules

API transformations

API versioning endpoints

Github API

39 amazing modules that Eric has shared on Forgebox

Testing Modules, augmented testing

The ColdBox framework viewed as a Module

What is like being a new CF developer vs a seasoned one

Why are you proud to use CF?

WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year?

What are you looking forward to at CFObjective?

 

ColdBox Modules are the preferred unit of code reuse in ColdBox applications. ColdBox Modules are extremely powerful and can provide anything from a simple component to a full self-contained api module. This talk will showcase some common module types in ColdBox, provide tools for quickly scaffolding shared modules, investigate testing modules (both with and without an embedded ColdBox application), and sharing your modules with the world.

Mentioned in this episode

ColdBox

CFLib 

GitHub

ColdBox module config file

ColdBox Interceptors

API versioning

cbgithub 

QB Query Builder 

cffractions 

All of Eric’s modules  

Postmark email module 

cbmodule Template 

Lucee CFML

Travis Continuous Integration

“For me participation in CF open source and conferences changed everything about seeing CF as alive vs dying” - Eric

CF Slack Community 

Introducing ColdBox to a Legacy Application blog post by Brad Wood 

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Bio

Eric Peterson

Eric Peterson is a CFML and Javascript developer at O.C. Tanner in Salt Lake City, Utah and more recently with Ortus Solutions (ColdBox, CommandBox, etc.). He attended the University of Utah and received a degree in Information Systems thinking he would hate programming as a career. He started programming in CFML (and in general) in 2012 and has never been more happy to be proved wrong. He is the current maintainer of ColdBox Elixir and a prolific module author on ForgeBox.io. He loves creating tools to help bring CFML up to date with other modern languages and communities. In his free time, Eric loves to participate in theater, musicals, and to spend time with his wife and two boys. He can be found on Twitter, GitHub, and on his blog.

Links

Website

Twitter

(* WWIT = What Would It Take)

Interview transcript

Michael:           Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Eric Peterson, and he is the module superman. He's written over 40 modules in ForgeBox and he's giving a talk ... We're going to be talking today about modules make your projects have superpowers. He's giving a talk cf.Objective in a few weeks, and we're going to be looking at what exactly a module is and why you'd use modules, where you can find pre-written modules, how you can save time with them, and also you don't have to use them with ColdBox. You can use them with other frameworks so he's gonna talk about that. Also, we're gonna look at some of the ways you can use [inaudible 00:00:40], and putting together a query builder with modules,