The Boring Framework

The Boring Framework is a Rails-inspired web framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications and APIs according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC)pattern.

MVC divides your application into three main layers: Model, View, and Controller.

Technology Stack

Under the covers - and sometimes not so much - Boring is just a project wrapper around common Node.js technologies, the core of which are:

• Fastify The entire web server runs as a Fastify application: routing, http, logging, etc.
• Jest All of the testing is provided via Jest. Tests, Mocking, etc.
• EJS The rendering of HTML-based pages is done via EJS. It has a similar syntax to Embedded Ruby (.erb) as well as other template languages.
• Objection Objection is how Active Record is implemented. Models inherit from Objection which is an ORM over knex.
• Nodemailer Nodemailer - and its plugin sytem - is how emails are sent.

Getting Started

We try to maintain clear, concise documentation for Getting Started and using The Boring Framework. Check out our docs pages for any questions you have!