Backbone-like frontend library

Bower

bower install owl.js

npm

npm install owl.js

Languages: ES5, ES6, TypeScript.

Modules: CommonJS, amd.

Libraries: React.

To start examples server

cd examples
npm start

owl.js is very simple library is very similar to of backbone.js, without dependency on underscore.js and jQuery. If you know backbone.js you mostly know owl.js.

The library uses MVC as main pattern. owl.Model is responsible for representing data from server based on REST architecture. owl.View is responsible for rendering view it can use any template engine to do it or generate DOM manually. But there is no special class for controller. You can create any object and use it as controller. Main goal of the controller to prepare data for the view, call the view and pass the data.

Also there is few classes out of the main pattern. owl.Router is created to manage pages based on URL. It contains records named routes. Each route contains path and name of controller and action (action is just a method in the controller) that will be called for specified path.

Run unit tests

karma start

or

npm test