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# Clean Architecture on Frontend

**[DEV](https://daily.dev/sources/devto)** · [@bespoyasov](https://daily.dev/bespoyasov) · 31 min read · 369 upvotes · 25 comments

## Summary

The Clean Architecture is a way of separating responsibilities and parts of functionality according to their proximity to the application domain. It is often referred to as a three-layer architecture, because the functionality in it is divided into layers. In this post we'll talk about what the clean architecture is in general and get familiar with such concepts as domain, use case and application layers. Then we'll discuss how this applies to the frontend and whether it's worth it at all.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@mariojsnunes** · 1 upvotes

> Clean Architecture is definitely not "clean", it makes your app more complex and hard to change. Use Vertical Slice Architecture instead.

**@itsjavi** · 1 upvotes

> Good article. Clean Arch. and DDD are very important for complex applications.
>
>  I wrote a small Vite plugin to prevent importing app-layer logic into my domain layer. In case it's useful for someone.
>
> ```ts
> import path from 'node:path'
> import type { Plugin } from 'vite'
>
> /**
>  * Vite Plugin to restrict certain imports based on configurable rules
>  * @example
>  * ```ts
>  * viteRestrictImports({
>  *   targetDir: 'app/lib',
>  *   rules: [
>  *     {
>  *       targetDir: 'app/lib',
>  *       test: (importedModuleName) => importedModuleName.startsWith('@/'),
>  *       message: 'Importing from \@/ is not...

**@sschneider\_pvs** · 1 upvotes

> I totally agree, architecture articles that cover the front end are very rare, so this is a real gem.
> Also, shoutout to @hgraca for his amazing article and graphics.

**@shreyassuresh** · 1 upvotes

> Helpful

**@nuri\_engin** · 1 upvotes

> Perfect resource!

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