OperationClassification tells you to what kind of environment the operation can be exposed to. It tells you things about how it will be built. There are three categories: Full stack, frontend only, and backend only. The aim is to do as much as possible in the full stack realm so it can be reused anywhere. If that is not possible, ui-esm is preferred for the frontend, or node-esm for things that require backend.

TODO: It would be great to learn more about this topic and see if I can make more cross-environment packages. A great use case would be to create a wrapper around the current fs-orm to enable using it at the frontend too.

FULL STACK

• cjs: only js (no node) (well, ts of course, but it gets built into common js)

• ts: non-built typescript code (needs to be transpiled, not recommended)

TODO: esm: builds to ESM module resolved Javascript

FRONTEND ONLY (cannot be used within backend-only operations)

• ui-web: has next.config.js and thus exposes something on some port when it is ran. next.js + react-based...

• ui-app: uses react-native and exposes something on some port when it is ran

• ui-ts: uses react (with (native)), which main entry points to typescript es6 files (this ui package cannot be built, should be transpiled. Primarily used for big ui libraries tied to a ui-web and ui-app for convenience. For other things, it is highly discouraged, please use ui-cjs or ui-esm)

• ui-cjs: ui which main entry points to javascript es5 files (this ui package can be built). don't import ESM packages in here, this may give problems.

• ui-esm: ui which builds to ESM module resolved Javascript. All packages that use ui-esm packages, need to be ui-esm, ui-es6, ui-web, or ui-app in order to work properly. It seems to have difficulties using this in ui-cjs

BACKEND ONLY (cannot be used within frontend-only operations)

• node-cjs: includes other node packages, operations, core-imports, and globals.

TODO: node-esm: Typescript package that is built to ESM Javascript which also includes all node packages, operations, core-imports and globals.

TODO: node-ts: transpilable node package

• server-cjs: exposes something on some port when it is ran and uses node code

Operations will be classified automatically. It is good to remember that:

• It will be classified as UI if isUiOperation resolves to true
• It will be classified as Node if Operation has a (dev)dependency on @types/node.
• Otherwise, it will be classified as base typescript (full stack)
• It will be classified to an ESM operation if tsconfigCompilesEsm resolves to true.
• It will be classified to a TS operation if packageCompilesTs resolves to true
• In order for it to be classified as a server, you must set isNodeServer to true in the operation config object of Operation