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Tower.js

Full Stack Web Framework for Node.js and the Browser

##Features

• Built for and by hackers

  Like you, we love building awesome things.

• Built for node.js and the browser

• Built on top of express and connect

• Convention over configuration

• Built on CoffeeScript

• simplicity in form and function

• template engine agnostic

• eliminate boilerplate

• no built-in bindings (pick your own, or don't use at all!)

• predictable expectation over time

• humans love patterns & structure

• simplifies building single page apps

• composable (so mobile version is super tiny with only basic functionality for example)

• use convention instead of events (you'll see why, way more powerful). "MVC" proper vs. MVC practical

• RESTful JSON interface

• needed a better way to manage events and callbacks

• super easy testing

• provides architecture

• HTML5

• CSS3

• MongoDB

• jQuery

• Open Source

• Node.js

• CoffeeScript

• ember.js

• mongoid

Tower Namespace API

• urlFor
• get
• post
• put
• destroy
• index
• show
• hide
• next
• prev