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Tower.js

Full Stack Web Framework for Node.js and the Browser

Features

• Built for and by hackers
• 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