Get Your Hands Dirty on Clean Architecture - Second Edition

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Implementing a Use Case

Let’s finally look at how we can manifest the architecture we have discussed in actual code.

Since the application, web, and persistence layers are so loosely coupled in our architecture, we’re totally free to model our domain code as we see fit. We can do Domain-Driven Design (DDD), implement a rich or anemic domain model, or invent our own way of doing things.

This chapter describes an opinionated way of implementing use cases within the Hexagonal Architecture style we introduced in previous chapters.

As is fitting for a domain-centric architecture, we’ll start with a domain entity and then build a use case around it.

Implementing the domain model

We want to implement the use case of sending money from one account ...