Concepts

Yelken introduces a few important concepts to provide an immutable base and isolation between third party sources like themes and plugins. First concept, that sits at the core of Yelken, is Namespace that provides isolation between resources. By assigning a unique namespace to each theme or plugin, they can run on their own without interfering resources defined by other themes or plugins. Moreover, a theme or plugin can also refer a resource provided by another one by using its namespace.

Another concept is Layer. Inside the Yelken, there are multiple resource sources where more than one source can contain a resource identified by same name. With the help of layering, a source can override value of a resource without directly modifying it located at another provider. This ensures that most of the resources are kept as immutable.

Following parts will explain each concept with more details.