TLDR; Monorail.js will never force you, and uses only what you need.
Monorail.js will never force you to install anything not needed for your project.
The goal is to use what you need.
Anything other than creating a project will always be optional.
npm install Monorail.js
Or start a project right now with Railing.sh
./railing.sh Project_Name
No configuration required.
Zero Touch Configuration to get you up and running.
$ ./monorail.js new project example
Creating Project example
Making directory example
Making directory example/static
Making directory example/static/img
Making directory example/static/js
Making directory example/static/css
Making directory example/themes
Making directory example/themes/classic
Making directory example/themes/classic/img
Making directory example/themes/classic/js
Making directory example/themes/classic/css
Making directory example/models
Making directory example/views
Making file example/monorail.project
Making file example/routes.js
Making file example/redis.config
Making file example/themes/classic/classic.html
Making file example/themes/classic/css/classic.css
Copying libs...
$ cd example
$ cat monorail.project
name : example
theme : classic
express_port : 8123
$ ../monorail.js start server
Starting Redis...
Redis Running on Process 3822
Starting Express
Express Running on Process 3825
Congratulations. You're DONE!
Lets install Mootools and RightJS
[user@machine tmp]$ ls
Example README.md lib monorail.js monorail.js-small.png monorail.js.png package.json
[user@machine tmp]$ cd Example/
[user@machine Example]$ ../monorail.js
install [mootools | rightjs | jquery | dojo | prototype ] ; Install JS Framework in this project
start server ; Start project Redis & Express server
new project [project_name] ; Creates project
new page [page_name] ; Creates new project page
[user@machine Example]$ ../monorail.js install mootools
[user@machine Example]$ ../monorail.js install rightjs
[user@machine Example]$ tree static/
static/
|-- css
|-- img
`-- js
|-- mootools-core-1.4.5-full-compat.js
`-- right-2.3.1.js
3 directories, 2 files
Make a new page
$ ../monorail.js new page user
Lets view our user view
$ cat views/user.xml
<#CODE#>html_body = 'This code block takes 100% node.js code.';</#CODE#>
Change it to this
<#CODE#>html_body = 'Viewing profile of '+username;</#CODE#>
Lets view our user model
$ cat models/user.js
var nohm = require('../lib/nohm').Nohm;
var redis = require('../lib/nohm/node_modules/redis');
var client = redis.createClient();
nohm.setClient(client);
nohm.model('user',{});
Lets add a controller to the bottom of route.js
app.get('/user/:name', function(req, res) {
user = req.params.name;
view = loadView('user',{ username: user });
page = railed('Viewing User - '+user, view);
res.send(page);
});
app.listen(express_port);
Lets start the server up and point our browser to http://localhost:8123/user/any_name_here
$ ../monorail.js start server
Starting Redis...
Redis Running on Process 3822
Starting Express
Express Running on Process 3825
There's more examples in the wiki :)
https://github.com/runexec/Monorail.js/wiki
http://docs.jquery.com/Main_Page
http://mootools.net/docs/core
http://rightjs.org/docs
http://api.prototypejs.org/
http://dojotoolkit.org/documentation/
http://maritz.github.com/nohm/
https://github.com/mranney/node_redis
http://expressjs.com/guide.html#http-methods
http://expressjs.com/guide.html#routing
http://expressjs.com/guide.html#passing-route%20control
http://expressjs.com/guide.html#route-middleware
http://expressjs.com/guide.html#route-param%20pre-conditions
It has currently only been tested on unix, but should work on windows with little or no changes.
Built and tested with node v0.6.13
nohm ORM vs 0.9.0
express 2.58
Add easy escape/unescape functions
Theme/Template documentation
More Wiki-Examples coming very very soon.
Heavy Bug Testing
MIT License Copyright (c) 2012 Ryan Kelker and individual contributors.
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