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from-a-high-level
From a High Level
Uniform is powerful in scenarios in which you want to:
- Maintain a portfolio of apps
- Deploy them separately
- Keep many aspects of them in sync
- Share capabilities between apps
This makes Uniform especially powerful for software organizations that do not have an entire team dedicated to each app.
enterprises
Enterprises
In our specific use case, we build and maintain apps across companies for a large enterprise. The companies have their own distinct branding, themes, deployment pipelines, and assurance processes. However, they share data access patterns, UI libraries, authentication mechanisms, and many other common features.
By leveraging Uniform, we're able to perform a change to our entire portfolio of apps in the same time that it would normally take to make the change to a single app. For example, when we find a security issue in our shared code architecture, we patch it once and all apps are instantly updated. What could have been a lengthy process to audit and patch dozens of apps becomes much simpler and less time-intensive.
Uniform also helps us accomplish sharing capabilities among apps. While
building a feature for a single app, we might create an "autosuggest" UI
component for suggesting live results as the user types in an input field. With
extremely little effort, by simply moving the component out of lib/that_app
into lib/shared_ui_components, this component becomes instantly available in
all other apps.
agencies
Agencies
Agencies that build custom apps often find themselves pressed for time as they try to balance the client's financial constraints with feature wishlists and the health of the codebase.
Uniform can help an agency leverage as much value as possible from their portfolio of already-built apps as they start new projects. Instead of rebuilding core pieces like project boilerplate, authentication systems, or integrations with third party services, those capabilities are available from the start. (As long as they're built with sharing in mind.)
Furthermore, since Uniform emits standalone codebases for each app, an agency is able to leverage this extreme level of reuse while still having separate codebases that belong to each client.