NFECT

(Node.js Front-End Construction Toolkit)

NFECT is a Node.js module for simple file output to the client. It uses JavaScript method chaining to indicate loading, execution, and code-inclusion details for external file and source code dependencies. The vision is to provide a mechanism for front-end developers to easily incorporate many dependencies (such as common header and footer HTML files, CSS files, and client-side JavaScript files) without needing to learn and use special content markup or awkward design patterns. NFECT also allows a developer to safely pass data via the descriptor object to and between each of these dependencies.

Usage

Examples

The following Node.js code initializes a simple HTTP server that responds to all requests using NFECT to output an index.html file to the client.

var nfect = require('nfect');
var server = http.createServer(function(req, res) {
  nfect.config({
    request: req, response: res
  }).go();
}).listen(80);

The following Node.js example initializes an HTTP server that responds to requests for index.html using NFECT and a single method to build a multiple-page server using several different files. The method also specifies a custom Expires HTTP header for each of the files.

var server = http.createServer(function(req, res) {
  nfect.config({
    request: req, response: res
  }).add({
    files: ['index.html','default.css','site.js'],
    header: {
      'Expires': 'Wed, 01 Jan 2015 16:00:00 GMT'
    }
  }).go();
}).listen(80);

Below is an NFECT example that constructs an HTTP server which responds to requests for index.html using NFECT's build utility to combine multiple independent files into one output file. Compare this functionality to a more traditional include() function in other languages.

var server = http.createServer(function(req, res) {
  nfect.config({
    request: req, response: res
  }).build({
    files: ['header.inc','body.html','footer.inc'],
    match: 'index.html'
  }).go();
}).listen(80);

License

NFECT is (C) 2014 curtis zimmerman and released under GPLv3.