The simple rule for creating modules

I need to emphasize on the fact that modular programming is not some magical and mystical design concept and pattern that is hard to grasp and even harder to implement. It is really just a practical approach to organizing our code in such a way that each chunk of code only does a very specific and specialized task.

The idea is that each module is a loosely coupled piece of the application, a building block that, along with other pieces (and other modules), creates an ecosystem, that is your application.

So here is the simple rule for creating modules: "If a piece of your application provides a specialized functionality, it can be made into a module that can also be reused in other applications."

I mentioned previously that I was looking for a "precise" rule to help me organize my application code but as my experience has shown, there is no such precise rule other than what I mentioned above, which is in fact not a rule but a guideline. And as a guideline, there is flexibility in what can be considered a module or not. This can be best decided both at the design time and as the application evolves since the application needs can change over time.