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+# Peridot
+
+## Terminology
+
+| Term               | Description                                                       |
+|--------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| Module (Container) | Bundle of providers, consumers, and imports to provide injections |
+| Provider           | Injectable element to provide functionality                       |
+| Consumer           | Element that can only get injections but cannot be injected       |
+
+## Functionality
+
+This library is completely built around modules/containers. A module is responsible for managing instances of providers,
+consumers and for injecting dependencies into these. Modules can also import other modules to fulfill the injection
+requests of their consumers. Consumers and providers are isolated from other modules, but a module can export providers
+to make them available for other modules. Modules only get loaded when required by others.
+
+There's no big difference between consumers and providers, only that consumers cannot be exported or injected. There's
+only one single instance of each consumer and provider during the whole runtime of the application. Future plans include
+scopes so that this behavior could be customized.
+
+The following steps will be done while booting the application:
+
+1. Decorators will be resolved and metadata fills up.
+2. The root module will boot all linked modules.
+3. Each module will create a single instance of each consumer and provider.
+4. Each module then will inject all dependencies into the consumer and provider.
+5. The module will call `onModuleInit()` to signal that injected elements are ready to use.
+
+Now you may ask "so I cannot use injected elements in the constructor?" - and you are right. You can't. First of all,
+because I was too lazy to implement this, and handling circular dependencies this way is less pain. To execute code
+after the module is ready you can use the `onModuleInit()` function from the `OnModuleInit` interface. This will ensure
+that all required injections are done and safe to use.
+
+## Simple examples
+
+A complete example can be found in the example folder of this repo.
+
+We will create a simple app with one module, one provider and one consumer:
+
+```ts
+import { Module, createApplication, OnModuleInit, Inject } from "./mod.ts"
+
+// Creates a simple provider with an add function
+class SimpleProvider {
+  public add(a: number, b: number): number {
+    return a + b;
+  }
+}
+
+// Creates a simple consumer that utilizes the add function from our simple provider
+class SimpleConsumer implements OnModuleInit {
+  // SimpleProvider should be injected here
+  @Inject(SimpleProvider)
+  simpleProvider!: SimpleProvider;
+
+  onModuleInit(): void {
+    // After module was initialized, use the provider to add two numbers
+    console.log("Service calculate 2 + 3 = " + this.simpleProvider.add(2, 3));
+  }
+}
+
+@Module({
+  // Tell the module that it has one provider and one consumer that it should satisfy
+  providers: [SimpleProvider],
+  consumers: [SimpleConsumer],
+})
+class SimpleModule {
+}
+
+// Boot application
+createApplication(SimpleModule);
+```
+
+In the next example, we will import service from another module
+
+```ts
+import { Module, createApplication, OnModuleInit, Inject } from "./mod.ts"
+
+// Creates a simple math provider
+class MathProvider {
+  public add(a: number, b: number): number {
+    return a + b;
+  }
+
+  public multiply(a: number, b: number): number {
+    return a * b;
+  }
+}
+
+@Module({
+  providers: [MathProvider],
+  // This line is important
+  // It tells the module that it can serve the MathProvider for other modules to use
+  exports: [MathProvider],
+})
+class MathModule {
+}
+
+class SimpleConsumer implements OnModuleInit {
+  // Utilizes MathProvider from MathModule
+  @Inject(MathProvider)
+  mathProvider!: MathProvider;
+
+  onModuleInit(): void {
+    console.log("Service calculate 2 + 3 = " + this.mathProvider.add(2, 3));
+    console.log("Service calculate 2 * 3 = " + this.mathProvider.multiply(2, 3));
+  }
+}
+
+@Module({
+  consumers: [SimpleConsumer],
+  // Imports MathModule so that this module can inject MathProvider to its consumers
+  imports: [MathModule],
+})
+class SimpleModule {
+}
+
+createApplication(SimpleModule);
+```
+
+> More examples will be added in the future
+
+## Circular dependencies
+
+To resolve circular dependencies we have to trick the typescript compiler a little bit by
+passing `forwardRef(() => ProviderClass)` as parameter for `Inject()`. `forwardRef()` can also be used to resolve
+circular module dependencies by passing `forwardRef(() => ModuleClass)` as parameter into the imports. Note, you need to
+use `forwardRef()` on both sides.
+
+> Example will be added in the future
+
+## Logging
+
+You can change the log level by setting the "LOG_LEVEL" environment variable. Valid values are:
+
+- OFF
+- CRITICAL
+- ERROR
+- WARNING
+- INFO
+- DEBUG
+
+The logger's default is INFO. Logging can slow down your application. When deploying your app set it to CRITICAL or
+ERROR.