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Monorail.js - Ultra lightweight MVC Framework for Node.js

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Re: Monorail.js - Ultra lightweight MVC Framework for Node.js

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How is that light weight? let's see it has scripts for skeloton projects/models/etc, has it's own orm's, and even ships with its own package manager. that seems like a lot of stuff is you're looking to light weight.

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For your enlightenment MVC isn't what you think it means.

http://andrzejonsoftware.blogspot.ca/2011/09/rails-is-not-mv...

Even if you are using the Rails version of the term MVC, as one commenter was keen to point out, it still has nothing to do with having data persistence or not.

Re: Monorail.js - Ultra lightweight MVC Framework for Node.js

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Just wanted to ask: is there any kind of micro-frameworks for Node out there? Something comparable to Flask(for Python) or Sinatra(for Ruby)?

I've been using Backbone.js for MV'C' in Node.js and re-using my models on the client side.

Backbone actually looks pretty good.

Re: Monorail.js - Ultra lightweight MVC Framework for Node.js

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Just wanted to ask: is there any kind of micro-frameworks for Node out there? Something comparable to Flask(for Python) or Sinatra(for Ruby)?

I've been using Backbone.js for MV'C' in Node.js and re-using my models on the client side.

Also, Geddy might be just as good if not better than backbone.

Re: Monorail.js - Ultra lightweight MVC Framework for Node.js

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Hmm, picking the name of another MVC framework for your framework isn't great. http://www.castleproject.org/monorail/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_(programming_language)

A few years ago you couldn't search for Go examples because it was seen as a common word instead of a query. Same thing happened to C# at first.

Re: Monorail.js - Ultra lightweight MVC Framework for Node.js

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How is that light weight? let's see it has scripts for skeloton projects/models/etc, has it's own orm's, and even ships with its own package manager. that seems like a lot of stuff is you're looking to light weight.

"How is that light weight?"

Look at the description:

"Monorail.js will never force you to install anything not needed for your project. The goal is to use what you need."

Plus, it's definitely lighter than express.

Re: Monorail.js - Ultra lightweight MVC Framework for Node.js

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How is that light weight? let's see it has scripts for skeloton projects/models/etc, has it's own orm's, and even ships with its own package manager. that seems like a lot of stuff is you're looking to light weight.

"How is that light weight?" Look at the description: "Monorail.js will never force you to install anything not needed for your project. The goal is to use what you need." Plus, it's definitely lighter than express.

As far as I can tell, this actually uses express.

Re: Monorail.js - Ultra lightweight MVC Framework for Node.js

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

"How is that light weight?" Look at the description: "Monorail.js will never force you to install anything not needed for your project. The goal is to use what you need." Plus, it's definitely lighter than express.

As far as I can tell, this actually uses express.

Ah, I stand corrected. I apologize.

I think if I were to use a node MVC framework built on express, I'd go with Matador: http://obvious.github.com/matador/

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