ZendFlow

Zendflow now transformed to universal tools for nim lang, the main idea is for managing nim lang application

Zendflow currently support this apps template:

• Web application template: we are using this framework for the web apps: https://github.com/zendbit/nim.zfcore High performance asynchttpserver and web framework for nim language. This is ready for production :-) better run under nginx proxy. On windows system you can use WSL(Window System for Linux) or using mingw, I don't have windows machine for testing the cmd compatibilty.

start from version 1.0.6 websocket ready

the asynchttpserver already migrate to zfblast server our http server implementaion using asyncnet with openssl ready. Using zendflow need to installed openssl and the compile flag default to -d:ssl

• Console application template: Create nim console apps

Install Nim Lang

Follow this nim language installation and setup Nim Language Download

Install nake, nwatchdog, karax from Nimble

nimble install nake
nimble install nwatchdog

dont forget to add ~/.nimble/bin in your home dir in to the sytem env

different distribution have different location, in this case I put it into ~/.profile

PATH=~/.nimble/bin:PATH

Clone zendflow repo and quick start

git clone https://github.com/zendbit/zendflow.git

goto zendflow dir

cd zendflow

available nake tasks:

Available tasks:
new - create new app. Ex: nake new console.
default-app - get/set default app. Ex: nake default-app [appname].
debug - build debug app, Ex: nake debug [appname].
release - build release app, Ex: nake release [appname].
run - run app, ex: nake run [appname].
debug-run - build debug and then run the app. Ex: nake debug-run [appname].
release-run - build release and then run the app. Ex: nake release-run [appname].
list-apps - show available app. Ex: nake list-app
delete-app - delete app. Ex: nake delete-app appname.
install-deps - install nimble app depedencies. Ex: nake install-deps [appname].
help - show available tasks. Ex: nake help.

example create new web app:

nake new web mywebsite

example create new console app:

nake new console myconsole

example create new web app:

nake new web mywebsite

after new command you can find the generated app from the templates in the apps/[your_application_name] folder.

first open the nakefile.json

console app nakefile.json if we want to add some depedency just put into the nimble array

{
  "appInfo": {
    "appName": "myconsole",
    "appType": "console"
  },
  "nimble": [],
  "debug": [
    {
      "action": "cmd",
      "exe": "nim",
      "props": {
        "src": "{currentAppDir}::src::myconsole.nim",
        "out": "{currentAppDir}::myconsole"
      },
      "options": "c -d:nimDebugDlOpen -o:{out} {src}"
    }
  ],
  "release": [
    {
      "action": "cmd",
      "exe": "nim",
      "props": {
        "src": "{currentAppDir}::src::myconsole.nim",
        "out": "{currentAppDir}::{appName}"
      },
      "options": "c -d:release -o:{out} {src}"
    }
  ],
  "run": [
    {
      "action": "cmd",
      "exe": "{currentAppDir}::{appName}"
    }
  ]
}

for example nimble depedencies on the web app nakefile.json the nimble package tool support install/develop directly from the git repo like go lang. see: https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble

"nimble": [
    "install uri3@#head",
    "install zfblast@#head",
    "install zfcore@#head",
    "install zfplugs@#head",
    "install stdext@#head",
    "install karax@#head"
  ]

for updating the app depedencies and installing we can directly using the nimble tools or using this command:

nake install-deps mywebsite

build debug only the app:

nake debug mywebsite

debug and run the app:

nake debug-run mywebsite

release only the app:

nake release mywebsite

release and then run the app:

nake release-run mywebsite

run the app only:

nake run mywebsite

if we focused on the one app for development and tired to write the app name, we can set the default app:

nake default-app mywebsite

after we set the default app, we can directly call the nake build, build-run etc whithout defines the app appname

nake debug
nake debug-run
nake release
nake run
etc...

show available apps:

nake list-apps

delete the app:

nake delete-app appname