mvcjs

MVC JS beta

Powerful lightweight mvc framework for nodejs inspired by Yii

Mvcjs is a first nodejs framework which supports modules as bundles!

Features

1. Fully extensible
2. TDD driven
3. Type checking at runtime
4. Custom DI
5. Component based
6. Twig (swigjs) templating engine
7. Dynamic routing
8. Logger
9. Modules

Demo application

Docs and live app

Getting started

npm install mvcjs

index.js

var di = require('mvcjs');
var framework = di.load('bootstrap');
framework.setBasePath(__dirname);
framework.init('app/', 'env.json');

app/env.json

{
  "aliases": [
    {
      "key": "assetsPath",
      "value": "@{basePath}/assets"
    }
  ],
  "components": [
    {
      "name": "core/logger",
      "enabled": true,
      "write": true,
      "publish": true,
      "console": true,
      "port": 9001,
      "file": "server.log"
    },
    {
      "name": "core/router",
      "errorRoute": "core/error"
    },
    {
      "name": "core/favicon",
      "path": "@{basePath}/favicon.ico"
    },
    {
      "name": "core/view",
      "views": "@{appPath}/views/",
      "theme": "default",
      "cache": true
    },
    {
      "name": "core/assets",
      "path": "@{basePath}/storage/",
      "hook": "^\\/assets"
    },
    {
      "name": "db/mongo",
      "connection": "mongodb://localhost/testdb"
    }
  ],
  "config": "config-test.js",
  "assetsPath": "@{assetsPath}",
  "port": 9000
}

app/config-test.js

module.exports = function (componet, di) {
    "use strict";
    var viewLoader, router,
        logger = componet.get('core/logger'),
        loggerModel = di.load('@{modelsPath}/logger');

    viewLoader = componet.get('core/view');
    viewLoader.setTheme('home');

    // bind logger hook
    logger.addHook(loggerModel.save.bind(loggerModel));

    router = componet.get('core/router');

    router.add([
      {
        pattern: 'home/<action>',
        route: 'home/<action>'
      },
      {
        pattern: 'posts/<action:(create|update|delete)>',
        route: 'posts/<action>',
        method: ['GET', 'POST']
      },
      {
        pattern: 'user/<id:(\\d+)>',
        route: 'user/view'
      }
    ]);
    router.add({
        pattern: '/',
        route: 'home/index'
    });
};