Bento Box

Application framework for Node.js

• Modular
• Extensible
• Stack Agnostic

Overview

The primary purpose of Bento Box is to provide a strong and consistent application structure with little to no opinion on various stack components. Bento Box is completely modular, and needs only a small interface layer to work with other various frameworks and services for your web application.

Bento Box offers what are called collections. These collections are observable streams of data that are subscribed to by various components. These streams will, most likely, contain modules needed to perform a particular task. One example might be to push a route to an express instance. See Collections below for more information.

Install

npm install bento-box

Basic Usage

var BentoBoxFactory = require('bento-box')
var bentoEmitter = BentoBoxFactory.getInstance()

bentoEmitter.on('ready', function(bento) {
    // Bento Box is ready, do something awesome
})

Application Configuration

Bento Box offers centralized appliation configuration, which is loaded asynchronously when a Bento Box instance is first created Config be default are loaded from the config directory in the project root. The config loader recursively loads files in the config directory has node modules. As an example the following tree would return:

── config
   ├─ index.js
   ├─ server
   │  ├─ routes.js
   │  └─ settings.js
   ├─ database.js
   └─ production.js

{
    database: // exports from database.js,
    production: // exports from production.js,
    server: {
      routes:   // exports from server/routes.js,
      settings: // exports from server/settings.js
    }
}

For more information see Module Loader on the wiki.

API Documentation

View the documentation

Testing

Run unit tests

npm test 

Run coverage report

npm run coverage

Copyright (c) 2015 David Street