From c6d172834359ab0d83d6ccab06ac73e46b8aba4f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: garrettmills Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2020 09:50:10 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] basic readme --- README.md | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.md diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..286531e --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +# Daton Monorepo +Daton is my work-in-progress application framework for Deno. It's written from scratch, using native Deno libraries. + +This library is a reincarnation of my [Flitter framework](https://flitter.garrettmills.dev) for Node.js. + +This library is organized as a mono-repo, and contains the following components: + +- DI + - Daton ships with its own type-metadata based inversion of control container, which is used to manage services and the application lifecycle. + - It does this by injecting dependencies into class constructors using type-hints added to the metadata by TypeScript at compile time +- Library + - The Daton library contains common elements used in Daton, such as: + - Collections and AsyncCollections + - Classes for interacting with HTTP requests, responses, and cookies + - Logic for the application and lifecycle units + - Units for controllers, middleware, route definitions, &c. +- ORM + - Daton also uses its own PostgreSQL ORM, which is ES6 native, and support a rich feature set, including: + - Class-based models + - Rich, fluent query builders + - Model relations, and nested relations, with eager loading + - Query result iterators, and custom query operators +- The work-in-progress app template