Aries

... is simple

/**
 *@RequestMapping(value="/hello-world") 
 */
HalloWorldController.prototype.sayHello = function(request, response){
    response.end("Hello world!");
};

Installation

npm install -g aries

now start server with

aries-start src=./src port=8000

where src is a folder with sources of your server and port... is a port

Features

routing

Routing with Aries as simple as writing comments. You just put variable name in curvy braces and put it as a parametr in your constructor. Aries dynamically assigns the value to variable.

/**
 *@RequestMapping(value="/twitter/{userId}") 
 */
HalloWorldController.prototype.twitterUser = function(request, response, userId){
    //we can use userId here
    //ex. response.end("Hi "+ userId);
};

asynchronous

Every request comes through a chain of functions to pass request to the next function you need to call this.doNext method along with request and response.

/**
 *@RequestMapping(value="/twitter/tweets") 
 */
HalloWorldController.prototype.twitterFeed = function(request, response, twitId){
    //you can pass flow to view resolver asynchronously
    this.doNext(request, response);             
};

smart binding

Aries provides some magic that allow to get post and get params inside controller by just declaring those as a parameter for controller function

/**
 *@RequestMapping(value="/twitter/tweets") 
 */
HalloWorldController.prototype.twitterFeed = function(request, response, twitId){
    //you can use twitId here if it is passed as POST or GET parameter
    //ex. response.end("Hi "+ twitId);
};

middleware

Standard request flow goes through following chain: [filters]->[controller resolver]->[pre controller interceptors]->[controller]->[post controller interceptors]->[view resolver] which gives us flexibility of using middleware as filters, pre and post controller interceptors. For example we can use connect's static middleware to handle static content as a filter which is the best to handle before controller resolver. To assign class as filter we just need to put Filter annotation before constructor.

var connect = require("connect");
var static = connect.static(__dirname + "/src/static");
/**
 * @Filter
 */
function StaticFilter(){}

StaticFilter.prototype.filter=function(request, response){
    var that=this;
    static(request, response, 
        function(){
            that.doNext(request, response);
        }
    );
}

there is more comming

session management cookie support validations handling model binding view caching logger what else would you like?

License

(The MIT License)

ARIES

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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