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<img alt="The Extollo logo" src="https://static.garrettmills.dev/sites/extollo/docs/assets/logo/svg/Extollo-Icon-and-Text-LIGHT-Final.svg" height="150">
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<b>extollo</b> - (v. <em>latin</em>) - to lift up, to elevate
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Extollo is a <a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.en.html" target="_blank">free & libre</a> application framework in TypeScript.
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Built on principles of modularity, strict-typing, inversion-of-control, and developer ergonomics, Extollo enables developers to build maintainable, scalable, and expressive applications.
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Node.js provides an excellent platform for quickly getting an application up and running, but this loose minimalism can lead to larger, more unweildy code-bases as your application grows. Extollo fixes this by providing an opinionated, robust framework and first-party modules that provide, among other things:
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- Type-based dependency injection
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- Strongly-typed ORM with an expressive query-builder and models
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- Customizable session & caching interfaces
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- Modular, pre-compiled, nest-able routes
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- First-party, extensible command line tools
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- Unit-based application structure
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## Getting Started
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Writing an application with Extollo is very straightforward if you are familiar with Node.js/TypeScript, or similar frameworks like Laravel.
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Check out the [Getting Started](pages/Getting-Started.html) page site for more information.
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## License & Philosophy
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The Extollo project is, and will always be, free & libre software. The framework itself is open-source available [here](https://code.garrettmills.dev/Extollo), and is licensed under the terms of the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more information.
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## Contributing
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Have an improvement or fix to Extollo? Contributors are always welcome. See the CONTRIBUTING.md file for next steps.
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