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Motivation

From:Frontend Vision - Management Overview

A Fundamental Problem

It’s handy to work on things in admincentral - but it’s an inherent anti-pattern that changes made in adminCentral are not in your “project”. 
It causes additional headaches & work:

• You must make the same changes in your files (resources&templates). You might forget.

• You must export changes to configuration to bootstraps. You might forget.

• You must import bootstraps or reinstall modules. You might forget.

• You must write module version handlers to handle the configuration changes on update.

• You must write tests for the module version handlers.

• The module version handlers and tests must be reviewed and qa’d.

Also the workflow for configuration is completely different then that for code, which slows down productivity.

Resources / References

Configuration by Code: Original 5 arch notes & discussion: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13rqtHSlO9hp43ZMsjiGTPwViJBWbmlo3oERaz5lIdD8/edit#heading=h.8qo3tfbu4pb5

Configuration by Code Concept: Configuration by code

Partners weigh in on the topic: http://forum.magnolia-cms.com/forum/thread.html?threadId=dacbff3f-0ce9-4293-b8b2-b5c1843568b7

Readable bootstrap files. See: Concept - Readable config files (Readable bootstrap files)

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