Zenhance
A Zend Framework MVC like approach to building enterprise NodeJS applications.
Zenhance does a lot of the heavy lifting for you such as auto routing to controllers and views, automatic caching and optimization as well as loading and unloading of modified files. This leaves you the developer more time to focus on developing your application without the need to stop and restart the node server.
Installation
npm install zenhance
Quick Start
Create a server.js file with the following contents and Zenhance will do the rest.
require("zenhance").run();
Now run the server
#> node server.js
Upon first run Zenhance will examine the current folder structure and add all required missing directories and files. The final product of which should look like this.
/application
Bootstrap.js
/configs
application.json
routes.json
/controllers
IndexController.js
ErrorController.js
/layouts
/scripts
/models
/views
/scripts
/index
index.handlebars
/error
index.handlebars
/partials
/library
/public
By default Zenhance ships with Handlebars and is built on top of Express. The template engine can be changed to use any Express compatible template engine you desire.
A default controller and view will be provided.
Index Controller Example
The following file is located at /application/controllers/IndexController.js and contains a simple view assignment.
'use strict';
class IndexController {
indexAction(){
this.view.title = 'Welcome to Zenhance';
this.view.description = 'Looks like everything is working as expected.';
}
}
Elements assigned to this.view are automatically handed to the template engine.
The following file is located at /application/views/scripts/index/index.handlebars.
Index View Example
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap-theme.min.css">
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.2.4/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/3.3.6/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="jumbotron">
<h1>
{{title}}
</h1>
<p>
{{description}}
</p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
The view simply renders out the title and description fields. For more information on Handlebars templates see the Handlebars documentation or for Zenhance specfic Handlebars enhancements, see the Zenhance partials documentation.
Zenhance Documentation
View the Zenhance Documentation.
Community
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License
Zenhance is released under The MIT License (MIT)