Silvera

Silvera is a declarative language for modeling microservice architectures based on textX, and it is designed in a way that directly implements domain-related design patterns.

Silvera is:

• lightweight and editor-agnostic language - you can use text editor of your choice to write Silvera programs.
• built with heterogeneity in mind - Silvera's compiler can produce code for any programming language or framework since code generators are registered as plugins.

In addition, Silvera uses microservice-tailored metrics to evaluate the architecture of the designed system and automatically generates the documentation. Architecture Evaluation Processor comes with a set of predefined metrics, but you can also add your own!.

Silvera is fully implemented in Python.

Feature highlights

• Designed patterns directly implemented in language

• Project modularization - imports

• Project evaluation based on metrics

• Automatic code generation

• Support for custom code generators via plugins

Installation

You can use pip to install Silvera:

$ pip install silvera

To verify that you have installed Silvera correctly run the following command:

$ silvera

You should get output like this:

Usage: silvera [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

Options:
  --debug  Debug/trace output.
  --help   Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  check            Checks if created model is valid.
  compile          Compiles application code into to provided output...
  evaluate         Evaluates the architecture for given project.
  init             Creates initial Silvera project
  list-generators  Lists all currently available code generators
  list-evaluators  Lists all currently available architecture evaluators
  visualize        Visualize the architecture for given project.

Video tutorials

Basics

Messaging

Microservice deployment options & custom code generator