moleculeInterface

Sometimes you don’t care about the implementation details. Your molecules need a dependency, but it doesn’t matter where it comes from or how it’s implemented. Bunshi supports interfaces as a tool to fix this problem.

An interface defines a dependency, but not the implementation for the dependency or how it gets created.

API

In other programming languages interfaces can be referenced at build time or runtime, but Javascript doesn’t have interfaces and Typescript interfaces don’t exist at runtime.

Bunshi has moleculeInterface to create molecule interfaces that can be referenced and used at runtime.

import { moleculeInterface } from "bunshi";

export interface SendsEmail {
  sendEmail(recipient: string);
}

export const SendsEmailMolecule = moleculeInterface<SendsEmail>();

Molecules can depend on interfaces, not just other molecules.

import { molecule } from "bunshi";
import { SendsEmailMolecule } from "./molecules";
import { FormMolecule } from "./forms";

export const RegistrationFormMolecule = molecule((mol) => {
  const emailSender = mol(SendsEmailMolecule);
  const form = mol(FormMolecule);

  const onSubmit = () => {
    emailSender.sendEmail(form.getData().email);
  };

  return {
    form,
    onSubmit,
  };
});

Tips

• Interfaces don’t specify if they are scoped or not. Write your molecules accordingly.
• Bindings to interfaces have to be done in injectors.
• If you have a default implementation for an interface, then just use a molecule instead.
• Scopes can act as a replacement for interfaces if you have a large number of implementations