evening

Evening.js

A light weight bundle to create elegant web applications. Evening is designed for small projects or prototyping ideas.

Installing

Install using npm:

npm install evening --save

... or use it as a dependency in your package.json file

Getting started

To get started you might want to check evening-todo - an example app following TodoMVC guidelines.

Why?

To make your work straight forward we solved a bunch of common problems for you.

• Clean html templates. Yes! there are no need to do brackets or extra attributes. Just pure html.
• Easy two-way-bindings
• Nesting
• Bundling
• Easy development with webpack-dev-server

What's baked in?

Evening is not a framework, but it can evolve as such. It bundles rock solid technologies proven in production and having long term support.

Evening.js bundles and uses following libraries.

• jQuery
• Backbone stack (Backbone.js & Underscore.js)
• Backbone-relational for relating models
• Epoxyjs for elegant data bindings
• Webpack and it's webpack-dev-server

Application structure

├── app                    # Contains your production files
│   ├── bundle.js          # Automatically created by building process
├── src                    # Source files (place your code here)
│   ├── app
│   │   ├── context        # Contains models and collections called context
│   │   ├── view           # Contains views and templates
│   │   ├── app.js         # Your app initialization file
│   ├── lib                # Reserved for external libraries
├── init.js                # Evening.js init file
├── package.json           # npm package file

Documentation

For up to date documentation and tutorials see eveningjs.org

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

See LICENSE.txt for more details