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A lightweight framework and template for creating a quick maintainable javascript server.
Light-framework and boilerplate code to quickly build scalable web apps using JavaScript. The Node.js server is configured to handle authentication and CRUD operations on data models you create. It even has some basic ones already defined such as users. The Angular.js client is configured to communicate with the server's API and ready to be extended.
Current Status: In Development.
Install dependencies: Git, Make, and G++.
Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install git make g++
npm -g install foxjs
Create and start a new project.
fox new "My Project Name"
Your server is now started and you can start coding. As you save changes the server will automatically restart!
All documentation can be found in the wiki.
# Command Line InterfaceYou can control your server using the command line interface. After fox is installed, you can type fox to show a list of commands.
info: Usage: fox <command> <options>
info: Commands:
info: new <name> Create a new server with a specified name.
info: start Start the server.
info: stop Stop the server.
info: restart Restart the server.
info: reload Restart the server with zero downtime.
info: clear Stop the server and clear all logs and history.
info: logs Show server logs
info: Options:
info: -v Enable verbose or debug mode.
info: -n Start server using plain old node.js and local mode.
info: -l Start in local environment mode.
info: -d Start in development environment mode.
info: -p Start in production environment mode.
info: Info:
info: Author Scott Smereka
info: Version 0.1.0
###MIT License
FAQs
A lightweight framework and template for creating a quick maintainable javascript server.
The npm package foxjs receives a total of 2 weekly downloads. As such, foxjs popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that foxjs demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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