Unconventional

A friend of mine who I occasionally help with development tasks came to me the other day asking about starting a project which would involve leveraging an API. Given that I develop APIs and domain architecture, this seemed like a pretty good fit for my talents.  I can produce the business logic and a simple chrome extension that talks to it and then we can explore further opportunities later, knowing that everything has been nicely abstracted. I've coded against a few public APIs in my time for various things ranging from social media to push messaging.  Although each time, I'm always left feeling like what I did was never a first-class citizen in my project.  In many cases with APIs, you're only leveraging the external model, but in the case of my new project, I actually plan on "extending" it... Read on if you're interested in any of the techniques involved, including repositories and project structure. Extension Defined When working with an extern...