There are lots of systems that follow this pattern, where you write some modules / components in source code then describe how they are connected using an external config file.

许多系统都遵循这种模式，在这些系统中，你编写一些模块/组件，然后通过一个外部配置文件定义他们之间的连接。

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From here you can install your Templates, Plugins, Modules, Components and Languages.

这里可以安装模板、插件、模块、组件和语言。

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It's a way of breaking the code up into modules. Modules that makes sense on their own. Modules that we can reuse in multiple places. Modules that, if you like, Isolate components of the process.

能将代码分解为模块,模块能够独自运作,我们能在很多地方再利用这些模块,如果你喜欢的话，模块可以被看作是过程独立的组成部分。

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