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Show HN: Frodo – Rails like app generator for Node.js/Express

• bshimmin 11y ago
  Looking at the last example, how does it know that `name` is of type String and `age` is of type Number? Should it not be $ frodo generate model user name:string age:number or something?
  • fbonetti 11y ago
    In Rails, attributes without an explicit type are `String` by default. Not sure how age became a `Number`, though.
    • benatkin 11y ago
      I think "Number" is from Mongoose, which is an ODM for MongoDB.
  • leemalmac 11y ago
    Ooops.... Thank you. Of course, it should be so.
• benatkin 11y ago
  Why does it have an IFFE on the controllers? This isn't a browser environment where we have to worry about files cluttering a global namespace. Each file is its own module where it has its own namespace. (Also this isn't needed for client-side development anymore unless you aren't using a build tool.)
  • leemalmac 11y ago
    I'm not a JS expert. Can you suggest the better way? I know that controllers are sandboxed, but I still like to add some 'namespacing'
• tuananh 11y ago
  why not use yeoman?
  • leemalmac 11y ago
    I've never heard about this project before. I searched for an existed solutions, but couldn't find an appropriate tool, so I decided to build one.
  • nkjoep 11y ago
    Yes, I think this is the right answer. Use yeoman please.
• trumbitta2 11y ago
  The rails like app generator for Node.js/Express: http://sailsjs.org/ http://sailsjs.org/
  • leemalmac 11y ago
    Is it pure Express without modifications? Shame to me, but I completely forgot about Sails, I knew it exists, but for some reasons I decided to use pure Express at work.