Show HN: Frodo – Rails like app generator for Node.js/Express

Show HN: Frodo – Rails like app generator for Node.js/Express(github.com)

13 points by leemalmac 10 years ago | 10 comments

bshimmin 10 years ago |

Looking at the last example, how does it know that `name` is of type String and `age` is of type Number? Should it not be

  $ frodo generate model user name:string age:number

or something?

fbonetti 10 years ago | |

In Rails, attributes without an explicit type are `String` by default. Not sure how age became a `Number`, though.

benatkin 10 years ago | | |

I think "Number" is from Mongoose, which is an ODM for MongoDB.

leemalmac 10 years ago | |

Ooops.... Thank you. Of course, it should be so.

benatkin 10 years ago |

Why does it have an IFFE on the controllers? This isn't a browser environment where we have to worry about files cluttering a global namespace. Each file is its own module where it has its own namespace. (Also this isn't needed for client-side development anymore unless you aren't using a build tool.)

leemalmac 10 years ago | |

I'm not a JS expert. Can you suggest the better way? I know that controllers are sandboxed, but I still like to add some 'namespacing'

trumbitta2 10 years ago |

The rails like app generator for Node.js/Express: http://sailsjs.org/

leemalmac 10 years ago | |

Is it pure Express without modifications? Shame to me, but I completely forgot about Sails, I knew it exists, but for some reasons I decided to use pure Express at work.

tuananh 10 years ago |

why not use yeoman?

leemalmac 10 years ago | |

I've never heard about this project before. I searched for an existed solutions, but couldn't find an appropriate tool, so I decided to build one.