mvcfun

MVCfun

MVCfun is an model-view-controller based web server framework.

Register controllers to ressource paths. You may use regular expressions for this to register a controller to a bunch of paths at once.

This project is under high development and new features pop out every week. Contributers are very welcome.

Quick example

var mvcfun     = require('mvcfun'),
    controller = mvcfun.controller,
    regexp     = mvcfun.regexp;

var server = (new mvcfun.http.Server())
    .listen(8080)
    .on('error', function(err) {
        console.log(err.stack);
        server.close(function() { process.exit(1) });
    });

server.addController(new controller.Static(regexp.files));
server.addController(new controller.Forbidden(regexp.directories));

This creates an http server listening on port 8080. It serves all static files located relatively to the default directory 'htdocs' and forbid any access to directories.

Why MVC

The model-view-controller pattern is well known in web development. Using this pattern makes code more readable and maintable without loosing performance.

Key features

- MVC based developing the cool way
- Maintainable code
- Increadibly fast
- RESTFul developing possible in same framework
- Swig template engine included
- High unit test coverage

Installation

Fast way using npm

The most simple way to install MVCfun is using npm:

npm install mvcfun

There you will get the last stable release containing all features.

Custom installation

MVCfun is organized in branches. Each branch has its own set of features. For instance the swig branch contains swig binding and a swig base controller.

If you want the naked framework, checkout the minimal branch. You may merge as many of the feature branches together as you want.

The master branch contains all features merged together and the versions published in npm come from the master branch.