WolverineJS

Simple MVC framework based on Node JS

installation

you can install with its generator.

npm install wolv -g

then , it will do the rest of the thing

wolv yourAppName

or

wolv

thts it . it will generate the primary boilerplate for you .

It uses ExpressJS and Nunjucks templating engine . This is the basic folder structure .

.
├── README.md
├── app
│   ├── controllers                     (folder)
│   │   ├── Auth
│   │   │   └── AuthController.js
│   │   ├── userController.js 
│   ├── models                          (folder)
│   │   ├── article.js
│   │   ├── product
│   │   │   └── products.js
│   │   ├── book.js
│   │   └── user.js
│   └── views                           (folder)
│       ├── base.html
│       ├── home.html
├── app.js
├── config                              (folder)
|   ├── routes.js
├── package.json
└── public                              (folder)
|   ├── css
|   ├── img
|   └── js

into the app.js file you need to include this , it will handle rest of the thing automatically .

var wolverine = require('wolverinejs');

It will boostrap your application and all models , controller , routes will be included .

check demo folder , write node app.js to run this form demo folder .

Routes

you can set your routes into app/config/routes.js , the format will be like this

module.exports = function(router , controller){

        // controller.great.index means , it will be into the app/controllers
        // folder and the name of the controller is AuthController and
        // index method will be executed  

        router.get('/', controller.AuthController.index );

        router.get('/test',function(rep , res , next){
            res.send('hello world');
        });

    return router;
}

Views

By default it uses Nunjucks [ http://nunjucks.jlongster.com/ ] . Your view files will be loaded from app/views folder . Its possible to extend template , it has many option , you can read form here http://mozilla.github.io/nunjucks/templating.html

Controllers

Controller will be into app/controllers directory and it follows

exports.index = function(req , res){
        // index.html is nunjucks templating file and it
        // will be loaded from app/views/ folder

        res.render('index.html',{title:'Please Sign up'});
}

Models

models will be into app/models folder

Todo

• ORM support for major database engines .
• Configuration override
• App environment settings
• Error & Event Handling
• Passport
• SockJS
• Test

Note :

Its a very simple framework that follows MVC patterns , very light weighted , still in heavy development