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I'm not sure what I prefer because I'm most familiar with Rails. I guess I'm used to type-separation. An individual Rails app could be structured using "engines"[0], which could easily allow for this kind of separation. Each engine will have its own app/ directory which contains models/, controllers/, services/, etc.

The point is that the feature is its own "project" which would likely be loaded in the host application as a gem. I don't think this is actually a strong convention either way in Rails, so it would still be compatible with convention-over-configuration to build an app this way.

(Kinda just thinking out loud. FWIW, I have worked on an application with a similar sort of "engine-primary" structure but not what I currently work on.)

[0] https://guides.rubyonrails.org/engines.html



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