Essen.js

Inspired by Sails.js, powered by Express.js

Install

$ npm install essen -g
$ essen create -t users -p projectfolder

Run

$ cd project_name
$ node app.js

Configure

• config/custom.js - Custom cofig. Define your global variables here
• config/server.js - Server config. Change port and name for your app
• config/db.js - DB config. Change host and DB name for your mongoDB
• config/bootstrap.js - Code inside this module will be executed before HTTP server starts
• config/log.js - Logger config. Only level option here
• config/middlewares.js - Middlewares config. Use this array to push your own middlewares. Position on array means middleware position on request
• config/env.js - Environment configs. Configure DB and server for each NODE_ENV
• config/socket.js - Socket config. Enable or disable socket.io listener
• controllers - Controllers directory. Check IndexController.js for example
• models - Models directory. Check UserModel.js for example
• middleware - Middleware directory. Check some of them, it's simple Express middleware
• router - Router folder. Create your routes here
• services - Services directory. You can use each service in every place

Features

• Quick start
• Router with children and namespaces
• API versioning
• Human style controllers
• ORM with methods, statics, middleware
• Custom requests middleware
• Environment configs
• Socket.io support
• Handy CLI (generator)

TODO

• Cli -> Clear dir when its not empty
• Core -> errors handling
• Core -> refactoring
• Security Policies

License

ISC