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Difference between Wrapper and Container

I had always a dilemma if to use Wrapper or Container in my component name.
I finally found a good description where is this simple rule.

In programming languages, the word container is generally used for structures that can contain more than one element. A wrapper, on the other hand, is something that wraps around a single object to provide more functionality and interface to it.

I hope it will help you as well to have a good naming convention in your great project.

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Developers
on September 6, 2020
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    Yeah! Naming conventions are the clue for the project success!

  2. 2

    Thank you! I don’t know about it before 😀

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      You are welcome :) Thank you for your comment

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    Wrapper sounds like a hack to implement something without changing 500 other places in your code.

    Container sounds like you had a plan.

    Just choose something and go.

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      Hi @zoftbase. It can sound like it but I see it as a great name suffix for cover around 3rd party component where you are not going to change their code.

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    That’s a great convention!

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