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People who do many modules, do you group them under folders, i.e payment/api, ui

 or put everything in root and create hierarchy via dashes? i.e. payment-api, payment-ui etc

Typically flat here, normally within a `subprojects` directory - makes working with the project easier I find, and IIRC parent directories are implicit parent projects

I also typically do something like this:
```import groovy.io.FileType

rootProject.name = "myproject"

file('subprojects').eachFile(FileType.DIRECTORIES) {
    def dirName = it.name
    def projectName = "${rootProject.name}-$dirName"

    include projectName

    def project = project(":$projectName")
    project.projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, "subprojects/$dirName")
    project.buildFileName = "${dirName}.gradle"
}```


Means you’re not presented by a wall of `build.gradle` files when you’re trying to open them in the IDE or whatever

Also a good idea to camelcase the project names, removing the hyphens - works better for Gradle autocomplete at the command line - but that takes more work to retain the hyphenated names for archives etc. so it’s a bit of a tradeoff

(These are all things that <https://github.com/gradle/gradle/> does incidentally)

so youre saying this?

```subprojects/payment-api
subprojects/payment-impl
subprojects/payment-ui

etc?```

what bothers me about the folder is that, say the payment-ui needs to be used by 2 apps, then what, create a folder per app, or just stick a suffix like `payment-ui-app1` ?

and if it were folder then they need to move physically and the gif diff is giant then

-- also for me it seems gradle doesnt like the folder, since I need to make the names unique globally, the path it self is not enought -&gt; i.e. it should be `payment/api`, however im forced to name it `payment/payment-api` if there are more like  say `user/api` , so `user/user-api`

<@U0B9S0W2D> yea Im trying to folder it, and its fighting me a lot, intellij that is

puts brackets with hyphented path next to my folder/module name etc, stupid

but I really dont see the point of this

its just reinvented folders

folders mostly work, but it cries a lot when the leaf module has the same name in different folder, for example `project1/app` , `project2/app` -- it automagically displays it at project1-app etc, but only on those which are duplicated, inconsitency maddens me