This is light weight mvc wrapper for express on node.js inspired by Zend Framework on php.

This framework reload modules, controllers and models automatically when they are changed without restart.

###installation

npm install mvc

##samples of application structure:

###without modules (https://github.com/morozovsk/mvc/tree/master/samples/sample-without-modules)

app/
-controllers/
--index.js
-models/
--message.js
-views/
--layout.ejs
--index/
---index.ejs

###with modules (https://github.com/morozovsk/mvc/tree/master/samples/sample-with-modules)

app/
-controllers/
--index.js
-models/
--message.js
-views/
--layout.ejs
--index/
---index.ejs
-modules/
--admin/
---controllers/
----index.js
---models/
----message.js
---views/
----layout.ejs
----index/
-----index.ejs

You can use helpers in your controllers:

this._app - link to express.createServer()
this._request - link to express request
this._response - link to express response
this._params - link to request.params
this._param - link to request.param
this._query - link to request.query
this._cookies - link to request.cookies
this._partial - link to response.partial
this._redirect - link to response.redirect
this._local - link to response._local
this._locals - link to response._locals
this._queryParam(name, defaultValue) - method for request.query like request.param
this._url(params) - method for generate url from object (example: this._url({controller:"message", action:"edit", id: 5}) => '/message/edit?id=5')

routes:

/
/controller
/controller/action
/controller/action?param1=value1&param2=value2
/controller?param1=value1&param2=value2
/module/controller
/module/controller/action
/module/controller/action?param1=value1&param2=value2
/module/controller?param1=value1&param2=value2
/module?param1=value1&param2=value2
/?param1=value1&param2=value2