##About##
Icecream is a rapid web framework based on NodeJS. It was designed with a very small footprint for those who need a simple, elegant and pragmatic toolkit to build high-performing, full-featured web applications.
the source code is hosted on github.com and licensed under the MIT license.
any question about icecream, please feel free to contact zhengzhiyu@yeah.net
##How to use##
####install nodejs####
####create your application####
open a shell prompt and type the following command
mkdir myApp
cd myApp
create application folders
mkdir app
mkdir app/controllers
mkdir app/views
mkdir app/views/layout
mkdir app/views/page
####add icecream to the application####
add icecream module to your working directory
cd myApp/app
npm install icecream
####add files to the application####
create the main file start.js in directory 'myApp/'
var icecream = require('icecream');
icecream.createServer({
appDir:__dirname +'/app'
});
icecream.listen(3000);
create controller file page.js in directory 'myApp/app/controllers/'.
action('index', function(){
var data = {
name: 'icecream',
introduction: 'Icecream is a rapid web framework based on NodeJS. It was designed with a very small footprint for those who need a simple, elegant and pragmatic toolkit to build high-performing, full-featured web applications.'
}
render('index', data);
})
create layout file layout.ejs in directory 'myApp/app/views/layout/'.
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type",content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>welcome to icecream!</title>
</head>
<body>
<div class="main">
<%-body%>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Note: icecream uses ejs as the default template engine, so 'ejs' is the default file name extention for views.
create view file index.ejs in directory 'myApp/app/views/page/'.
<h2><%=name%></h2>
<div><%=introduction%></div>
####run the application####
open a shell prompt and change directory to your applicaton
cd /path to your application (myApp)
node start.js
open http://localhost:3000 in browser
FAQs
rapid web framework for nodejs
The npm package icecream receives a total of 6 weekly downloads. As such, icecream popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that icecream 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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