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

Re:Monorail.js - Ultra lightweight MVC Framework for Node.js by my8bird on Saturday March 24, 2012 @11:43PM (#3751640)

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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Re:Monorail.js - Ultra lightweight MVC Framework for Node.js by firefoxman1 on Sunday March 25, 2012 @02:07AM (#3751867)

"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.

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Re:Monorail.js - Ultra lightweight MVC Framework for Node.js by lojack on Sunday March 25, 2012 @03:06AM (#3751936)

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

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Re:Monorail.js - Ultra lightweight MVC Framework for Node.js by firefoxman1 on Sunday March 25, 2012 @04:25AM (#3752067)

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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Re:Monorail.js - Ultra lightweight MVC Framework for Node.js by armnhammer on Sunday March 25, 2012 @04:33AM (#3752078)

Matador actually looks pretty sweet.

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Re:Monorail.js - Ultra lightweight MVC Framework for Node.js by mudetroit on Sunday March 25, 2012 @12:38AM (#3751741)

The M in MVC has nothing to do with database persistence. That is a wonderful perception that rails and its ilk have given us, for better or worse. You could build a complete system that fully implements MVC without database persistence, or really any persistence at all.

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Re:Monorail.js - Ultra lightweight MVC Framework for Node.js by lucisferre on Sunday March 25, 2012 @12:47AM (#3751756)

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.

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Re:Monorail.js - Ultra lightweight MVC Framework for Node.js by rohitarondekar on Sunday March 25, 2012 @12:28AM (#3751726)

I think he meant

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Re:Monorail.js - Ultra lightweight MVC Framework for Node.js by ericflo on Sunday March 25, 2012 @12:13AM (#3751696)

Wow, what a hostile response.

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