As app developers like Frontside continue to diverge from the way we're building our own Stripes apps, and we find ourselves sometimes needing to give guidance, we need to differentiate in our own minds (and in docs) between

• A. Here is the Stripes-module contract. Do ye these things

• B. Here are some facilities we provide to help you fulfil A.

A given app developer may be making bad decisions (to our mind) in ignoring B, but they are fully within their rights. But they must do A, and that's what our communication with them needs to emphasize.

To facilitate this, we need either a new, terse, document simply listing the parts of the Stripes API that are in each category; or, perhaps simple a new section in the Stripes Developer Guide.