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What do you call application modules that are responsible for business logic? (self.experienced_devs)

submitted 6 months ago by vvv to c/experienced_devs

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Somewhere between API resources, queue workers, repositories, clients and serializers there is a class of ... classes/modules that does the needful. Gun-to-my-head, I would call them "services" but I'm looking for a less overloaded term. Maybe capabilities? Controllers? Pick a term from the business domain? What do you call them?

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[–] tatterdemalion 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Stealing from "Domain Driven Design", I think calling them "domain objects" is appropriate.

[–] vvv 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

that's a good call actually. I got pretty hung up on domain objects being mostly data classes, but one approach is to have them perform business logic themselves.

[–] tatterdemalion 1 points 5 months ago

Perhaps "domain modules" if you want to be more agnostic about the actual shape of the code.