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Nitro
Nitro provides a library of carefully designed middleware and utilities for creating scalable, standards-compliant Web Applications with JavaScript. Nitro is build on top of Jack/JSGI, Narwhal/CommonJS and Rhino.
Nitro applications leverage (strict) Web Standards like XHTML/HTML, CSS, HTTP, XML, XSLT, ECMAScript 3.0, MicroFormats, etc. Typically, Nitro applications are a collection of programs that run on the server and the client. A control program dispatches work to the application programs and aggregates their output. The application's output is consumed by modern web browsers, web services or other applications through a standard REST interface.
- Homepage: http://nitrojs.org/
- Source & Download: http://github.com/gmosx/nitro/
- Documentation: http://nitrojs.org/docs
- Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/nitro-devel
- Issue tracking: http://github.com/gmosx/nitro/issues
- IRC: #nitrojs on irc.freenode.net
Getting Started
At the moment, Nitro requires customized versions of Narwhal and Jack. Please get patched versions from:
http://github.com/gmosx/jack http://github.com/gmosx/narwhal
After you have installed Narwhal and Jack you are ready to run the simple example:
$ cd example
$ jackup
The application will start listening at localhost:8080, so use your favourite browser to verify that everything works correctly.
For a more sophisticated exampe that implements a simple Blog on Google App Engine have a look at:
Directory structure
/docs: Contains documentation files in markdown format. The docs are published at www.nitrojs.org/docs
/lib: Contains the implementation of the web application framework
/example:
Contains a simple example
/tests:
Contains unit and functional tests.
Google App Engine
Nitro applications run great on Google App Engine. Have a look at the blog-gae example for a demonstration of using Nitro and appengine package to develop a simple Blog.
Related projects
Nitro is an ecosystem of related projects:
Caveats
Nitro is under intense development. Changes to the API are to be expected.
Credits
- George Moschovitis george.moschovitis@gmail.com
- Kris Kowal kris.kowal@cixar.com
License
Copyright (c) 2009 George Moschovitis, http://gmosx.com
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
