Whats the Product module and whats the Product.Host service?

[hitaspdotnet]

Mr @hikalkan
Hi,
Why we need two type of same module? In your design, modules are just library references and they need an extra application for running? Isn't possible to implement Host services in their own module?
How we can access to our module's api end-point by pushing F5 without having demo app in our module's solution?

[hikalkan]

Hi,

Modules are libreries as you said. They are not runnable applications. A module does not assume how it will be run, the final application decides it. You can run a module as a self deployed service or as a part of a monolithic application. See https://abp.io/documents/abp/latest/Best-Practices/Module-Architecture#layers-packages for possible usages of a module.

In addition, the application will make configurations, prepare the asp.net core pipeline and many other tasks those should not be assumed by a module. Demo applications in the modules are sample minimalist example applications use the module.

Also, most of the times, modules needs each other. For instance, blog module needs to a user & permission management system. Identity module is an implementation of the user management module. But we don't want blog module directly depends on the identity module. So, the application brings modules together and prepares a fully running application.

[hitaspdotnet]

Thanks for letting me know more about the modules with your description❤️