State Directory Structure

Angular: The Full Gamut Edition

Charlie Greenman
April 27, 2021
2 min read
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When you start an Angular project for the first time, it can be increasingly difficult to manage ngrx/store.

State, while it should ideally be tied to a feature, as the app moves on, might not necessarily be tied to a specific feature, or page. State as a single giant object is global by nature. It takes up a large portion of any app.

It makes sense to put all state in a single repository, so that state within the app can be transparent. For testing purposes, state is a very large chunk of business logic for app and deserves it's own module for bundling, and testing purposes.

Data Access Folder/File Structure

State is used as a method for accessing data, an appropriate name for the folder/file tree for state makes sense to be called \"data-access\". It will look something like the following:

All of the state related code is contained within a single folder. By doing so, it solves all of the above three issues:

  1. State is global, and therefore can now be used by multiple features

  2. We have the ability to run ng test --project=px-illustrator-data-access-code-box and it will run code specifically for this data-access feature state

  3. By globalizing naming convention, we can streamline naming convention of all global files intended towards working towards the same purpose. Namely, our data-services, and features.

  4. In addition, it alleviates the potential issue of circular dependencies. If, for instance, we have feature folder A, and feature folder B. B might need state from A, and A might need feature state from B. By keeping all of our state global, it helps us circumvent this circular dependency problem.

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