ColibriJS

About

ColibriJS is tiny javascript framework for building simple client-side web applications. It has no any dependencies and uses pure javascript to work.

It includes templates engine, ajax requests method, routing (with hash or history API).

How to start?

View index.html and js/app.js for example. You need some server to be installed. Node.js server:

• install Node.js
• enter npm install -g nws in Terminal / Console / CMD
• enter cd PATH/TO/FOLDER/WITH/COLIBRIJS && nws in Terminal / Console / CMD
• open http://localhost:3030/ in your browser

HTML5 pushstate (history) server-side support

Apache server:

<ifModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !index
    RewriteRule (.*) index.html [L]
</ifModule>

Nginx server:

location  index {
}

location / {
  if (!-e $request_filename){
    rewrite ^(.*)$ /index.html break;
  }
}

Jetty:

<Configure id="Server" class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server">

    <New id="Rewrite" class="org.eclipse.jetty.rewrite.handler.RewriteHandler">
      <Set name="rewriteRequestURI">true</Set>
      <Set name="rewritePathInfo">false</Set>
      <Set name="originalPathAttribute">requestedPath</Set>
      
      <!-- Write all rules for your URLs -->
      <Call name="addRule">
        <Arg>
          <New class="org.eclipse.jetty.rewrite.handler.RewriteRegexRule">
            <Set name="regex">/presenter/(.*)</Set>
            <Set name="replacement">/index.html</Set>
          </New>
        </Arg>
      </Call>
      
    </New>
    
    <Set name="handler"><Ref id="Rewrite" /></Set>
</Configure>

Browser support

• IE 9+
• FF 3.5 +
• Chrome
• Opera 11+
• Safari 4+

Licence

Code licensed under the The MIT License.

Links

• Pure JavaScript
• Twitter