Koa MVC

Opinionated and minimalist MVC generator for koa. Inspired by express-generator.

Quick Start

The quickest way to get started with a koa app is to utilize the executable koa-mvc to generate an application as shown below:

Create the app:

    npm install -g koa-mvc
    koa-mvc /projects/foo && cd /projects/foo

Install dependencies:

    npm install

Rock and Roll

    node --harmony --harmony_proxies app

Options

• -t, --theme [name] switch application theme to [white|green|violet|red]. Defaults to red.

• -d, --db [engine] change database to one of [mysql|postgresql|mongo|redis|memory|disk]. Defaults to disk.

• -c, --css [engine] add stylesheet support [less|stylus|plain]. Defaults to plain css.

• -a, --auth [type] add [type] authentication support [facebook|google|github|bitbucket|local]. Defaults to local only. Use ":" as separator for multiples (f.x. local:facebook:google). Set to false to disable (like koa-mvc ... -a false).

• -e, --template [engine] change template engine. Support [ejs] only for now. Defaults to ejs.

• -i, --i18n add i18n support. Translations used by i18n-node-2 ported to koa-i18n

• -S, --no-session remove session support. Session is enabled by default.

• -f, --force force on non-empty directory

  Example using layout green, mysql as db, facebook and google authentication:

    koa-mvc ~/www/test-koa-mvc -t green --db mysql -a local:facebook:google
    cd ~/www/test-koa-mvc
    npm install
    node --harmony app

Go to http://localhost:3000 and have fun hacking

Enough talk, show me something

green with facebook auth
koa-mvc myapp -t green -a facebook:github:google:

Structure

• configs routes, general app stuff, authorization
• • main application configuration
• • auth authorization and authentication config
• • database load models and initialize the database here
• • routes load controllers and define the routes
• controllers plain objects to use its methods as routes
• • site
• • auth authentication and authorization methods
• locales if i18n option is set
• models uses Waterline ORM
• views templates
• • error error views (401,403,404,error)
• • layouts layouts folder (main, error)
• • site application views (index, login)
• web public folder
• • css
• • js

Uses

• koa (obviously)
• ejs EJS as view engine
• waterline as ORM

Also

• koa-bodyparser to handle post data easier
• koa-static exposes assets (js e css)
• koa-router you know, for routes

Optional

• koa-generic-session if has session support
• koa-flash for session flash messages
• koa-passport for authentication, also passport extensions for each kind of auth
• koa-locale if option i18n is set
• koa-i18n if option i18n is set
• koa-less if you choose less as css engine
• koa-stylus if you choose stylus as css engine

Roadmap

• Finish authentication
• add swig template engine
• better i18n support (actually use it in the views to translate)
• convert css to less (works if there is raw css but it's not ideal)
• add tests

Also

• Generate controller command
• Generate model command
• Generate CRUD command

Notes

Koa currently requires node 0.11.x for the --harmony flag which exposes generators to your script. If you're running an earlier version of node you may install n, a node version manager to quickly install 0.11.x:

$ npm install -g n
$ n 0.11.13