Axis

Introduction

Axis is an expressive, unopinionated, and minimal web framework for Node.js. The goal of Axis is to stay out of your way, while lessening the amount of code you need to write for a clean, functional web application. It is built upon a collection of popular libraries and much lower-level frameworks which synergize very well together, as well as some extra magic to handle routing and database stuff.

The combination of these libraries, utilities, and tools allow developers to make complex web applications very quickly and efficiently.

What it uses

• Express: main backend framework for web
• Objection.js and Knex: ultra-lightweight ORM and query builder
• Passport: for authentication
• Your choice of view engine

How to use

There is no proper documentation for now, as this was mainly intended for me to use as I had noticed I was writing the same backend code over and over for every app I made. However, you should be able to look at the Todo demo project here, it's commented and everything so you should be able to find what you want to do.

Here's a basic example nonetheless:

Bootstrapping

const {App} = require("axis"),
	  path = require("path");

require("dotenv").config();

let app = new App({
	viewEngineName: "pug",
	viewEngine: require("pug"),
	viewDir: path.join(__dirname, "views"),

	session: {
		secret: process.env.APP_SECRET,
		resave: false,
		saveUninitialized: false
	},

	publicDir: path.join(__dirname, "public"),

	controllers: path.join(__dirname, "./controllers"),
	database: require("./database"),
	routers: [
		require("./routes/web")
	]
});

app.listen(process.env.APP_PORT, () => {
	console.log(`Listening on ${process.env.APP_PORT}`);
});

Routing

const {RouteGroup} = require("axis");

module.exports = ({PagesController, TodoController}, {Todo}) => {
	let app = new RouteGroup("/");

	app.get("/", PagesController.index);

	app.group("/todos", (group) => {
		group.get("/", TodoController.index);
		group.get("/:id", TodoController.view).bind("id", Todo);
	});

	return app;
};

Controllers

const {Controller} = require("axis");

module.exports = class TodoController extends Controller {
	async index() {
		let todos = await this.models.Todo.query();
		return this.render("todos/index", {todos});
	}

	async view(todo) {
		return this.render("todos/view", {todo});
	}
};