DragonNode.js Webserver

Bundle with services to develop applications with express, bower and swig

• Provide the versions of the bower installed libraries in the views
• Provide the language data with the determined language in the views
• Provide the information of the package.json in the views
• Swig express integration to bind ".twig" views to the swig renderer

Installation

• Add bundle to the "package.json":

{
    "dependencies": {
        "dragonnodejs-webserver": "^9.1.1"
    }
}

• Run "npm install"
• Extend the configuration in "app.js":

var config = {
    modules: {
        npm: [
            [require('dragonnodejs-webserver'), {
                bower: {
                    libraries: [],
                    path: __dirname + '/'
                },
                language: {
                    default: 'en',
                    languages: ['de', 'en'],
                    path: __dirname + '/languages/'
                },
                package: {
                    path: __dirname + '/package.json'
                },
                swig: { 
                    views: __dirname + '/views/' 
                }
            }]
        ]
    }
};

Reserved Swig variables

• "bower" with the versions of the bower installed libraries, for example to include jQuery per dynamic CDN URL:

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/{{ bower.jquery }}/jquery.min.js"></script>

• "language" with the language strings if the language service is used in the current request

{{ language.example }}

• "package" with the name and the version of the application from the "/package.json", for example:

{{ package.name }} {{ package.version }}