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Monorail.js - Ultra lightweight MVC Framework for Node.js (github.com)
25 points by armnhammer 5205 days ago
4 comments
lucisferre 5205 days ago
Hmm, picking the name of another MVC framework for your framework isn't great.

http://www.castleproject.org/monorail/

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InclinedPlane 5205 days ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_(programming_language)
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fhwang 5205 days ago
It's always strange when you see programmers who don't understand why namespace collisions are bad.
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InclinedPlane 5204 days ago
The annoying part about it is that it's easier than ever to do a search to see if there will be a collision.
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armnhammer 5205 days ago
A few years ago you couldn't search for Go examples because it was seen as a common word instead of a query. Same thing happened to C# at first.
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my8bird 5205 days ago
How is that light weight? let's see it has scripts for skeloton projects/models/etc, has it's own orm's, and even ships with its own package manager. that seems like a lot of stuff is you're looking to light weight.
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firefoxman1 5205 days ago
"How is that light weight?"

Look at the description:

"Monorail.js will never force you to install anything not needed for your project. The goal is to use what you need."

Plus, it's definitely lighter than express.

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lojack 5205 days ago
As far as I can tell, this actually uses express.
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firefoxman1 5205 days ago
Ah, I stand corrected. I apologize.

I think if I were to use a node MVC framework built on express, I'd go with Matador: http://obvious.github.com/matador/

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armnhammer 5205 days ago
Matador actually looks pretty sweet.
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armnhammer 5205 days ago
Also, here's a list of frameworks for node https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/modules#wiki-web-framewo...
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samrat 5205 days ago
Just wanted to ask: is there any kind of micro-frameworks for Node out there? Something comparable to Flask(for Python) or Sinatra(for Ruby)?
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glassx 5205 days ago
There's Express: http://expressjs.com/ or https://github.com/visionmedia/express
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tikhonj 5205 days ago
Express is really nice. I was surprisingly productive almost immediately after I started using it, and enjoyed it throughout.
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Aqueous 5205 days ago
I've been using Backbone.js for MV'C' in Node.js and re-using my models on the client side.
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armnhammer 5205 days ago
Also, Geddy might be just as good if not better than backbone.
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armnhammer 5205 days ago
Backbone actually looks pretty good.
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firefoxman1 5205 days ago
There's a list here: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/modules#wiki-web-framewo...

I've also found Grasshopper to be a great one: https://github.com/tuxychandru/grasshopper

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olegp 5205 days ago
If you prefer a synchronous style (using fibers), I ported Stick from RingoJS: https://github.com/olegp/stick
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swanson 5205 days ago
https://github.com/maccman/ace
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