Vortex Framework

Vortex Framework project. Fast, extensible and easy to use backend framework

Vortex allows you to easily create web application using technology stacks you prefer to use. It uses MVC like pattern using customizable router to parse request url and execute controller to return response as view.

See the documentation for more info.

Features

• Customizable Router to make custom url schemes
• Database based project/application structure - meaning changes can be deployed immediately (caching is work in progress to reduce requests to database engine)
• Page templating (components are planned too)
• Scripting engine to create custom controllers and make dynamic web applications (currently limited version of JavaScript is implemented, planned is full V8-JavaScript support and other languages aswell e.g. Python, Lua, VBScript...)

Getting started

Docker container

The simplest way to start the project is using prebuilt docker images. You will need to pull the latest image using docker pull d0si/vortex:latest and then run it with docker run -it d0si/vortex:latest /vortex/build/bin/vortex. If you replace the last argument with e.g. /bin/bash you will have access to the container shell.

Build locally

To build the project yourself you will need:

• CMake version 3.10 or higher
• C++ compiler (gcc/MSVC)
• Boost version 1.72.0 or higher with development headers
• OpenSSL development libraries
• Mongo C driver (recommended version 1.16.0)
• Mongo C++ driver (recommended version 3.4.0)
• nlohmann-json header (recommended version 3.7.3)
• cpp_redis with tacopie
• duktape runtime (recommended version 2.5.0)
• duktape-cpp
• crypto++ (recommended version 8.2.0)
• libgraphqlparser (recommended version 0.7.0)
• spdlog (recommended version 1.8.2)

Please take a look at d0si/cmake-cpp-vortex-builder/blob/master/Dockerfile.alpine to see how the dependencies can be installed and adapt the concept to match your distro.

After cloning the repo you will need to also get submodules. Use git submodule update --init --recursive to clone them.

Build steps:

1. Create build folder inside project root and cd into it
2. Initialize CMake project using cmake .. (Use -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release argument to build release binaries)
3. Build using make or make -j8 replacing 8 with number of build jobs (threads) you want to use for building.
4. Run executable with sample project ./bin/vortex --config=../samples/server_config.json