Flatiron - An Adaptable Framework For Building Modern Web Applications With Node.js

Flatiron is an adaptable framework for building modern web applications. It was built from the ground up for use with JavaScript and Node.js.

Philosophy

No one agrees on frameworks. It's difficult to get consensus on how much or how little a framework should do. Flatiron's approach is to package simple to use yet full featured components and let developers subtract or add what they want.

Motivation

Build a collection of decoupled, unobtrusive tools that can operate as well in unison as they do independently. Promote code organization and sustainability by clearly separating development concerns.

Features

• URL Routing - A simple tool for directing traffic based on URLs that are received both on the browser and server.
• Templating - An unobtrusive templating tool that is fast,DSL free and simple to use.
• Data Management - A storage agnostic resource-oriented object to document mapper for building data models with validation and sanitization.
• Middleware - A Modern hybrid buffered/streaming middleware kernel backwards compatible with connect.
• Plugins - A plugin manager that provides lightweight application extensibility and composition with a twist of feature reflection.
• Logging - A multi-transport async logging library for node.js with plugins for many commonly targeted stores.

Requirements: Node.js
Demo: http://flatironjs.org/
License: MIT License

BinaryJS - A JavaScript Library For Realtime Binary Streaming For The Web Using WebSockets

BinaryJS is a JavaScript library for bidrectional realtime binary data streaming with WebSockets.  BinaryJS is a lightweight framework that utilizes WebSockets to send, stream, and pipe binary data bidirectionally between browser JavaScript and Node.js.

• BinaryPack serialization format is fast, binary, and JSON-type compatible. Data stays binary end to end
• Automatically chunks large binary data buffers for streaming performance
• Send multiple streams of data concurrently over multiplexed websocket connection
• API implements Node.js read/write Streams. You can pipe any stream into BinaryJS streams (and vice-versa)
• "pause," "resume," and "end" as in the Streams API

Requirements: None
Demo: https://github.com/binaryjs/binaryjs/tree/master/examples
License: MIT License