Feathers is a real-time, micro-service web framework for NodeJS that gives you control over your data via RESTful resources, sockets and flexible plug-ins.
Visit the website at feathersjs.com to read the Getting started guide or learn how to build real-time applications with jQuery, Angular, React, CanJS, iOS, Android - you name it - and Feathers as the backend in our guides.
Want to see it in action? Here is a full REST and real-time todo API that uses MongoDB:
// app.js
var feathers = require('feathers');
var mongodb = require('feathers-mongodb');
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
var app = feathers();
var todoService = mongodb({
db: 'feathers-demo',
collection: 'todos'
});
app.configure(feathers.rest())
.configure(feathers.socketio())
.use(bodyParser.json())
.use('/todos', todoService)
.use('/', feathers.static(__dirname))
.listen(3000);Then run
npm install feathers feathers-mongodb body-parser
node app
and go to http://localhost:3000/todos. That's all the code you need to have a full real-time CRUD API.
Don't want to use MongoDB? Feathers has plugins for many other databases and you can easily write your own adapters.