How to create Salesforce DX project sub-modules using Visual Studio Code / Salesforce DX CLI

Question

I would like to break my project into multiple submodules:

project
- config
- module-1
-- main
--- default
---- classes
- module-2
-- main
--- default
---- classes    
- etc

Is there a Visual Studio Code command-palette command or Salesforce DX CLI command to create submodules with the correct scaffolding?

Answer 1

Salesforce's Tech Evangelists have created some tools and patterns you may be interested in:

• https://github.com/sfdx-isv/sfdx-falcon-template
• https://github.com/sfdx-isv/sfdx-falcon

Based on the issues and pull requests, it looks like the number of users is small though.

I've set one project up using multiple "module" folders i.e. applied some of these patterns but chose to stick to the core SFDX commands to do that. It was of some help in organizing the code, as that project had some distinct pieces.

But when modules are pushed into an org, you are back to having a single namespace and a couple of times we had components of the same name in more than one module with confusing results. The other gotcha I experienced was this How to use "sfdx force:source:pull" with folders other than "main/default" where components are added in the scratch org?.

My opinion after that project is that you are on much safer and better understood territory sticking to just the one default "module" pattern for now unless your project is very large. Also, perhaps Second-Generation Packaging will offer more.