saffron

Saffron is an experimental web-development framework prototype for Haxe/NodeJS. The main ideas are:

* Express
* Macros and templates
* allow code-sharing between server/client
* client- and server-side rendering
* intelligent data preloading
* secure database access
* lightweight runtime

It makes development with Haxe and Express much easier. For example:

// IndexHandler.hx
class IndexHandler extends Handler {
	public function index() : Void {
		this.render({ });
	}

	public function hello() : Void {
		this.render({ });
	}
	
	private function world() : Void {
	}
}

// OtherHandler.hx
class OtherHandler extends Handler {
	public function edit(id : Int) : Void {
		this.render({ "id": id });
	}
}

// Application.hx
class Application {
	public static function main() {
		var server = new Server();
		
		// Routes
		server.get('/:action', IndexHandler);
		server.post('/:action{edit}/:id', OtherHandler);
		
		// Start the client/server
		server.start(3000);
	}
}

// Gets compiled to JS
var Application = function() { }
Application.main = function() {
	var server = new saffron.Server();
	server.express.get("/",function(req,res) {
		new IndexHandler(req,res).index();
	});
	server.express.get("/hello",function(req,res) {
		new IndexHandler(req,res).hello();
	});
	server.express.post("/edit",function(req,res) {
		new OtherHandler(req,res).edit(req.params.id);
	});
	server.start(3000);
}

Install

haxelib git saffron https://github.com/janekp/saffron.git src

# Node dependencies
sudo npm install -g express

# Optional dependencies
sudo npm install -g mysql generic-pool mapstrace formidable@latest
sudo npm install -g jasmine-node winston send bcrypt

# Node can't find modules?
sudo npm link <MODULENAME>