Impress

Impressive totalitarian style web application framework for node.js. All decisions are made. Ready for applied development.

Installation

$ npm install impress

Features

• url routing based on file system
• can hosts multiple sites or applications on one server
  • serving multiple ports, network interfaces, hosts and protocols
  • soft configuration changes with zero downtime
• simple server-side templating
• caching server-side executable JavaScript and templates in memory
• folder monitoring for server-side executable JavaScript changes and template changes
• buil-in authentication and user groups
  • sessions and cookies (memory state or persistent sessions with MongoDB)
  • template personalization for user groups
  • access modifiers for each folder in access.js files
• simple way for json-based web services development
• serving static files with content type and streaming for media files
• implemented SSE (Server-Sent Events) with channels and milticast
• multiple cluster instantiation strategies:
  • single instance (one process, no master and workers)
  • instance specialization (multiple processes, one master and different workers for each server)
  • multiple instances (multiple processes, one master and identical workers with no sticky)
  • ip sticky (multiple processes, one master and workers with serving sticky by IP)
• reverse-proxy (routing request to external HTTP server with url-rewriting)
• flexible configuration in json file
• simple logging web requests
• connection drivers for MongoDB and MySQL
• nodemailer as a plugin for email sending

Example

server.js:

require('impress');
impress.init(function() {
    // Place here other initialization code
    // to be executed after Impress initialization
});

Configuration

1. Copy project template from examples into your project folder
2. Edit config.js file in project folder
3. If you want to store persistent sessions in MongoDB, you need to run setup.js
4. Run command: node server.js

Handler examples and file system url mapping

1. Template example Location: http://localhost Base template: /sites/localhost/html.template
2. Override included "left.template" Location: http://localhost/override Overriden template: /sites/localhost/override/left.template Base template: /sites/localhost/html.template Handler: /sites/localhost/request.js
3. JSON api method example Location: http://localhost/api/examples/methodName.json Handler: /sites/localhost/api/examples/methodName.json/get.js
4. Start anonymous session Location: http://localhost/api/auth/anonymousSession.json Handler: /sites/localhost/api/auth/anonymousSession.json/get.js
5. POST request handler Location: POST http://localhost/api/auth/regvalidation.json Handler: /sites/localhost/api/auth/regvalidation.json/post.js
6. MongoDB access example Location: http://localhost/api/examples/getUsers.json Handler: /sites/localhost/api/examples/getUsers.json/get.js

Contributors

• Timur Shemsedinov (marcusaurelius)
• Sergey Andriyaschenko (tblasv)

License

Dual licensed under the MIT or RUMI licenses.

Copyright (c) 2012-2013 MetaSystems <timur.shemsedinov@gmail.com>

License: RUMI

Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript of a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that.

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi "Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi"