Major Geddy updates

In the most recent round of updates, Larz Conwell has done a shit-ton of amazing work on templates: making the templating system play nicely with various formats: EJS, Mustache, and Jade. It can now happily figure out what sort of template from the file-extension, and you can even mix and match different formats together in layouts/partials.

He's also implemented Rails-like view-helpers like urlFor and linkTo , making your views simpler and more DRY.

Last but not least, he's vastly improved the generators to support full scaffold-generation, not just minimal resources.

What else is changing?

There's a lot of work happening on Geddy -- mostly breaking the project apart to make it more modular.

Utilities

The large set of utility functions (most of which originated in the now-ancient Fleegix.js library) have been pulled out into their own library, Utilities .

This classic collection of JavaScript utilities is of course available on NPM . String-manipulation, datetime stuff, mixin, filesystem utilities -- there's a ton of useful shit in there.

Model

Even more importantly, the Geddy model code now resides in a separate project, simply called Model , which is a general-purpose, datastore-agnostic ORM library in JavaScript.

I built Postgres support first, but back-porting Geddy's existing support for MongoDB, and building a Riak adapter, are next in line. Model is also installable via NPM , but documentation hasn't moved over from the Geddy project, so it's still rather DIY.

When is this happening?

The libraries are usable as-is, but the Geddy work for this lives in a branch -- but as you see, it's solid enough to build real applications with, so it will be landing soon. I'm pretty excited to have a solid framework for building Web apps like this in JavaScript.