kiss.js

Web framework for node.js in CoffeeScript. Simple and sexy.

Object-oriented web framework on Node.js, written in CoffeeScript.

Installation

• Get npm (http://npmjs.org)
• run

  npm install kiss.js

• (optionaly) If you want write project in CoffeeScript

  npm install coffee-script

• Done

Usage

• Create project(it is just good files structure, you can configure it via application options)

  kiss new path/to/new/project

• core/app.coffee

    kiss = require "kiss.js"
    controllers = require "../controllers/controllers"
    args = process.argv.splice 2
    address = "127.0.0.1"
    port = 1337
    if args[0]
    	address = args[0]
    if args[1]
    	port = parseInt args[1]	
    my_controller = new controllers.MyController()
    options =
    	application:
    		address: address || "127.0.0.1"
    		port: port || 1337
    	views:
    		static_path: __dirname + "/../views/static/"
    		template_path: __dirname + "/../"
    		locale_path: __dirname + "/../views/locales/"
    		cookie_secret: "ertyu78f020fk"
    	urls:
    		"/": my_controller
    		"/user":
    			"/posts": my_controller
    app = new kiss.core.application.Application(options)
    app.start()
    

• controllers.js

kiss = require "kiss.js" class MyController get: (req, res) -> req.session.views ?= 0 req.session.views++ context = { foo: req.session.views, names: ["Stas", "Boris"], numbers: [], name: -> "Bob " + "Marley" } for i in [0..10] context.numbers.push "bla bla " + i res.template "view.html", context

post: (req, res) ->
	res.text "hello from post"

exports.MyController = MyController

• view.html Kiss.js uses Django-like templates from swig. See project folder. Client-side coffee scripts will be compile on the start. For styling use Stylus, it also compiles on the start.