Introduction

###Another Javascript/NodeJS framework??

Yes!

###Why?

The main goal of this full-stack framework is to help you organize, rationalize and homogenize your javascript code (website, api, ...) on both the server (nodejs) and client (browser) sides.

###Which features of this framework can help me to realize that?

Danf provides many features in order to produce an scalable, maintainable, testable and performant code:

• An object-oriented programming layer.
• An inversion of control design (dependency injection via configurations files).
• A simple system allowing to use the same code on both the client and server sides.
• A homogeneous way to handle all kind of events (http request, DOM events, ...).
• An elegant solution to callback hell preserving asynchronicity.
• A helper to develop performant ajax applications supporting deep linking.
• A modular approach to develop and use (open source) modules.

###What?? An object-oriented programming layer?

Object-oriented programming (OOP) is often a controversial topic in the javascript community. Most of the time, you can observe two reactions:

• • But everything is already object in javascript!
• • Why the hell do you want to use OOP in javascript?

First, that is not because all variables are objects that a langage can be considered as providing a way to make a straightforward and robust OOP. As for now, native javascript does not allow to make a reliable industrial OOP code (this will be explained in the concept section of the documentation). Then, OOP is certainly not a matter of language, but rather a means of architecturing applications. So why not use OOP for a javascript application?

###So, OOP is the way to develop in javascript?

No. It is one possible way.

Hello world

// app.js

var danf = require('danf');

danf({
    config: {
        events: {
            request: {
                helloWorld: {
                    path: '/',
                    methods: ['get'],
                    view: {
                        text: {
                            value: 'Hello world!'
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
});

Installation

$ npm install -g danf

Community

Danf is a brand new framework. It may seem a little hard to handle at the beginning but it can help you to master big projects by avoiding the divergence of the complexity as well as smaller fast and dynamic websites. Just give it a try on one of your project or by testing the tutorial accessible in the documentation. Be careful, you could see your way of coding javascript in Node forever change (or not...).

Of course, the community is still small, but it is an active community. You can post your issues on github or on stack overflow with the tag danf and you will get an answer as fast as possible.

<trailer-voice>Have you ever wanted to participate in the early stages of a new technology? Let's try it on Danf! Join the community and contribute now.</trailer-voice>

Documentation

You can access a full documentation here.

License

Open Source Initiative OSI - The MIT License

http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php

Copyright (c) 2014 Thomas Prelot

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