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JetKit

Work in progress

Dynamic website generator

Built on top of:

Express - server middleware
Mongoose + node-validator - DB, ORM and validation
Hardwire - app container
Wiretree - dependency injection container
Passport - Multiservice auth
Jade - Template engine
deep.json - config loader
curlymail - SMTP mailer and mail template engine with mustaches support
miniruler - Roles, levels and permissions
node-cron - cronjobs
¿?¿? - Handle errors and logs

Requirements

Node.js and MongoDB

Quick start

Install

Initialize a npm proyect and install JetKit as dependency (it requires a package.json):

mkdir myapp && cd myapp
npm init
npm install --save jetkit

Boilerplate

JetKit postinstall script add 2 scripts to your package.json: jk-boilerplate and jk-initdb, run the first one in order to generate your app structure folder (/app) and a launcher (app.js)

npm run jk-boilerplate

Database

You must configure your database connection before run your app. Open /app/config/default.json and add your credentials into mondgodb section.

Then create a user in DB:

npm run jk-initdb

email: admin@admin.com
password: admin

Start app

Run your app:

npm start

Index URL: http://localhost:3000
Admin URL: http://localhost:3000/admin

App structure

JetKit is structured in blocks, and block are composed by public files, views and/or plugins.

Blocks

Blocks folder structure:

config
controllers
lib
models
public
routes
services
utilities
views

Plugins

See Wiretree

Configurations

Configuration is exposed in tree as config. Their files are stored in /config.

See deep.json

Public files

Public files are stored in /public folder in blocks, and by default available through HTTP under /_public URLs. JetKit creates also 3 folders in public folder: js, css and img

Views

Views are not exposed in tree. Their files are stored in /views. Views are jade templates

Routers

Routes are not exposed in tree and their files are stored in /routes

Controllers

Controller files are stored in /controllers.

Exposed in group control with its file name as keyname, and under tree root with suffix Ctrl

Models

JetKit uses Mongoose models stored in /models folder.

Exposed in group models with its file name as keyname, and under tree root with suffix Model.

3 types of models:

Collections

Collections are pure Mongoose models with its entirely API, and their files are stored in /models/collections

Subcollections (not implemented yet)

Subcollections are collections stored into a single document into _keyval collection.

Subcollection document schemas are stored in /models/subcollections folder

Singles

Singles are models that contain a single document and their files are stored in /models/singles.

Simplified API: read and update

Libraries

Libraries are not exposed in tree.

Their files are stored in /lib

Services

Service plugins are stored in /services.

Exposed in group services with its file name as keyname, and under tree root with suffix Srv.

Core services:

mailer

See Curlymail

ruler

See miniruler

log

Logger (¿?¿?¿?¿?)

fm

File manager.

Routing

Main

GET		/					Home page

User

GET		/user/login			    Login page
GET		/user/logout		    Login page
POST    /user/login             Post login credentials
GET     /user/forgot-password   Forgot password view
POST    /user/forgot-password   Post forgot password credentials
GET     /user/forgot-error      Error recovering password view
GET     /user/restore/:hash     Restore password form view
POST    /user/restore/:hash     Post new credentials recovering password
GET     /user/password-restored Restored password ok view

Admin API

GET		/admin							Admin dashboard
// collection docs
GET		/admin/collection/:model				List/Search documents of model :model
GET		/admin/collection/:model/new			New doc view
POST	/admin/collection/:model				Create new doc
GET		/admin/collection/:model/:id			Read doc
GET		/admin/collection/:model/:id/edit		Edit doc view
PUT		/admin/collection/:model/:id			Update doc
DEL		/admin/collection/:model/:id			Destroy doc
// single docs
GET		/admin/single/:model/:id/edit	Edit doc view
PUT		/admin/single/:model/:id		Update doc

Released under MIT License

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