Insanely fast (and small) server-side JavaScript web development framework built on node and Connect.
- Visit the Websute for documentation
- Visit the Google Group for discussion
- Sexy DSL with robust sinatra-like routing
- Environment based configuration
- High performance
- View support (ejs, jade, haml, sass, etc)
- View partials
- Full test coverage via expresso
Via Connect:
- Session support
- Cache API
- Mime helpers
- ETag support
- Redirection helpers
- Persistent flash notifications
- Cookie support
- JSON-RPC
- Logging
- and much more!
Install the Kiwi package manager for nodejs and run:
$ kiwi install express
or via npm:
$ npm install express
or
Install via git clone:
$ git clone git://github.com/visionmedia/express.git && cd express && git submodule update --init
Express uses the Expresso TDD
framework to write and run elegant test suites extremely fast. First $ git submodule update --init
, then run:
$ make test
The latest release of Express is compatible with node --version: v0.1.100
- JavaScript Extensions & Utilities
- JavaScript Sass
- JavaScript Haml
- JavaScript Jade spiritual successor of Haml
- Featured in Advanced JavaScript e-book for only $4
- TJ Holowaychuk (visionmedia) <tj@vision-media.ca>
- Aaron Heckmann (aheckmann) <aaron.heckmann+github@gmail.com>
- Ciaran Jessup (ciaranj) <ciaranj@gmail.com>
(The MIT License)
Copyright (c) 2009-2010 TJ Holowaychuk <tj@vision-media.ca>
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