Sane defaults and a simple structure, scaling as your application grows.
Matador is a clean, organized framework for Node.js architected to suit MVC enthusiasts. It gives you a well-defined development environment with flexible routing, easy controller mappings, and basic request filtering. It’s built on open source libraries such as Hogan.js for view rendering, Klass for its inheritance model, Valentine for functional development, and Express to give a bundle of other Node server related helpers.
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$ npm install matador -g$ matador init app–name
$ cd !$ && npm install matador// server.js
require('matador').listen(3000)$ node server.js && open http://localhost:3000// app/config/routes.js
['get', '/hello/:name', 'Home', 'hello']// app/controllers/HomeController.js
hello: function (name) {
this.response.send('hello' + name)
}// app/controllers/HomeController.js
this.render('index', {
title: 'Bull Fighters'
})<!-- app/views/layout.html -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>{{title}}</title>
</head>
<body>
{{{body}}}
</body>
</html><!-- app/views/index.html -->
<h1>Welcome {{title}}</h1>// app/controllers/UserController.js
module.exports = require('./ApplicationController').extend()
.methods({
show: function (id) {
this.getModel('User').find(id, v.bind(this, function (user) {
this.render('user', user)
}))
}
})// app/controllers/ApplicationController.js
module.exports = require('./BaseController').extend(function () {
this.addBeforeFilter(this.requireAuth)
this.addExcludeFilter(['welcome'], this.requireAuth)
})
.methods({
requireAuth: function (callback) {
if (this.request.cookies.authed) return callback(null)
this.response.redirect('/welcome')
}
, welcome: function () {
this.render('welcome')
}
})