This is a symptom of the fact that an "app" is a leaky abstraction. It is nice to think about a webapp as being a collection of apps that have well-defined narr

This is a symptom of the fact that an "app" is a leaky abstraction. It is nice to think about a webapp as being a collection of apps that have well-defined narrow functionality, but it is just not the case. As soon as you start writing code you realize that the apps need to be coupled or you have to jump through major hoops to decouple them properly. Once they are fully decoupled, they look more like plugins than apps.