Ferry is (yet another) REST API framework.
Typically, Ferry is required as a dependency when creating a server implementation. See example implementations.
Engines power Ferry; they are third-party modules that provide various features. In order to create a functional API, one engine of each type is required.
Adapters are Ferry modules that provide the interface between an engine and the Ferry framework.
An easy way to work on the Ferry suite of packages is to clone all of the desired repositories into a top-level ferryjs
directory, and then use the symlink package to automatically npm link
the local repositories.
npm install -g symlink
(at least v1.0.0)cd ferryjs
git clone https://github.com/ferryjs/ferry.git
(do this for all ferry repositories)git clone https://github.com/ferryjs/ferry-examples.git
symlink ./ ferry-examples/
(and include any other directories that contain ferry projects)
If the symlink
and/or npm link
steps error out, just re-run them.