Using-Liquid-for-building-your-application.md

WIP - This tutorial is still a Work In Progress and should not be used yet

• TODO: create the templates
• TODO: create the documents for each step
• TODO: confirm this step-by-step strawman

Main > Using Liquid for building your application

The following are the basic instructions on how to build modern liquid applications taking advantage of Liquid's features and concepts.

Prepare your DevOps environment

1. Install Liquid project templates for starting
2. Choose platform components to support your business code
3. Setup configurations per environment
4. Configure CI, CD and CT
5. Deploy microservices on containers

Code your microservices

6. Define the APIs (and formats) exposed
7. Structure internal (business) logic
8. Validate input parameters and data models
9. Authenticate and authorize the API
10. Persist and query data from repository
11. Make calls to internal classes
12. Call other microservices
13. Call third-party APIs

Connect your front-end to your APIs

14. Call the back-end
15. Call third-party back-ends
16. Add authentication to the front-end

Develop tests and mocks

17. Seed test data
18. Test APIs directly
19. Mock authentication
20. Mock calls to microservices

Add advanced behavior

21. Gather telemetry from front-ends and back-ends
22. Control state of changing data
23. Querying and present data with pagination
24. Building complex queries
25. Deal with multiple cultures