Brisk

An MVC framework for Node.js, built on top of Express. Brisk omits most of the platform-specific conventions and returns application development to a more traditional object-oriented structure. Inspired by Backbone.js and using lessons learnt from developing KISSCMS.

At its core it uses a modified version of John Resig’s simple class. This provides class level inheritance and callbacks.

Features

• Auto-routing
• Slim express configuration
• OO architecture
• Clean app folder

Install

Using npm:

npm install brisk

Usage

When initializing Brisk the express app is passed as a site module.

var brisk = require("brisk"),
  express = require("express");

var modules = {
  app : express()
};

// initialize
brisk.init( modules );

In addition, a number of other modules may be passed that are necessary for the site to function.

For example, modules may also include: db, server, sessions...

Folder structure

Following best practices, the expected folder structure is enforcing seperation of concerns using an MVC architecture and looks something like this:

app
 |_ controllers
 |_ helpers
 |_ models
 |_ views
config
 |_ brisk.js

• controllers define the routes for the site
• helpers contains helper routines referenced in controllers
• models describe the data structures
• views hosts a set of html fragments, used to generate the output of the site

The config folder may contain more configuration files, as required, but the config/brisk.js will be seeked out to overwrite the default configuration.

Configuration

The config folder should contain all the site configuration.

Each helper may require their own config file, manually used & independent of brisk, but there are two config files that brisk will automatically try to load:

brisk

This is the default configuration of the site, overwriting the config/default.js values in the node module

express

This cofiguration file is dedicated to configuring express, which is a core component of Brisk.

Credits

Initiated by Makis Tracend (@tracend)

Distributed through Makesites.org

Released under the Apache License, v2.0