Eggs.js

Eggs.js want to be a Reactive Javascript Web App Framework based on Bacon.js.

Motivation

Bacon.js makes functional reactive programming sizzle. To use it to create web applications however, you still need a structure like the one provided by Backbone.js. Backbone.js and other similar frameworks are event-based and are an akward fit to Bacon.js FRP capabilities.

Eggs.js could be used to provide the structure needed to easily assemble web applications based on REST services. A collection of tools and best practices to do so, would make a redistributable framework that would be as tasty as bacon with eggs.

Current status

🚧 Eggs.js is still in development and is not usable yet. 🚧

Version 0.0.1: Eggs.js is just taking form.

Roadmap

Here is an indication of how Eggs.js development should proceeed. Holes in versions are there to allow for further refinements.

• Version 0.0.2 will have Model, Collection and Router with relative unit tests inspired by Backbone.js. The goal is to be able to start playing around with those components to figure out the best API and how to structure the View class.
• Version 0.0.4 will have a refined API for Model, Collection and Router.
• Version 0.0.7 will have an initial View implementation.
• Version 0.1 will be usable in place of Backbone.js.
• Version 0.2 will have a cleaned API ready to move to further development.
• Version 1.0 will be stable and have a finalized API and will incorporate higher order components like Application, Layout to be usable in commercial settings.

How to build

Get CoffeeScript installed and compile all .coffee files to .js with:

coffee -c */*.coffee

To run unit tests open test/index.html.

Vision and Guidelines

To start off, Eggs.js will have Backbone.js as reference point. However, it is quite common when developing a web app to use an additional framework over Backbone.js (see Marionette, Chaplin) to gain additional structure. Eggs.js should provide all the neccessary structure to be used as one of those higher-level framework if needed.

Guidelines and code examples to come

Contribute

If you like the idea and want to comment, suggest or code; please do open new issues. The project is in a very early stage so any feedback is welcome as of now.

License

Eggs.js is distributed under MIT license.