shoebox

Collections of models for everyone!

We believe that -

Models

• are by default "plain old objects" and should remain that way until we explicitly ask more of them
• have relationships to other models
• may be observable, dirtyable, and other useful features if and only if desired
• must be serializable without needing to clean up their pollution first

Collections

• are by default just groups of models
• should be loosely coupled to the logic that generates them, whether from local or remote data
• should be designed for performance as the default, but allow functionality to be added explicitly
• should be serializable, convertible, and cloneable
• may be sortable, indexed, filtered, and paginated

Relationships

• Exist between models and other models
• ...of which one such relationship is a Collection
• Exist between models and their collections
• Exist between collections and other collections

Shoebox

• should not have opinions on models it contains
• should explicitly extend and decorate with required functionality, and prefer to do so lazily where possible