"As modern software systems grow in complexity, they naturally become more modularized and distributed. Rather than maintaining a single, monolithic codebase, development teams increasingly structure their applications as loosely-coupled components. This approach allows teams to work autonomously, focusing on specific areas of the system without the need to grasp its entirety. Traditionally, modularity in software has been driven by technical considerations - separating frontend and backend services based on their runtimes, technologies, or infrastructure needs."
"Full-stack components introduce a different way of thinking about modularity. Instead of splitting software along technical boundaries, they encapsulate entire units based on business goals. A full-stack component includes both the frontend UI and the backend logic required to power it, enabling teams to deliver complete features without dependencies on other teams. This approach abstracts away infrastructure details, allowing developers to think in terms of product functionality rather than system architecture."
Modern software systems become increasingly modular and distributed as teams structure applications as loosely-coupled components, allowing autonomy and focus on specific areas without full-system knowledge. Traditional modularity split by technical boundaries (frontend vs backend) creates friction through API waits, deployment synchronization, and layer mismatches. Full-stack components encapsulate frontend UI and backend logic around business goals, enabling teams to deliver complete features without cross-team dependencies and abstracting infrastructure concerns. Harmony is a lightweight library designed to compose independently delivered full-stack components, called aspects, into cohesive platforms. Aspects can expose multiple entry files for different runtimes such as browser and Node.js.
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