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+# Daton Monorepo
+Daton is my work-in-progress application framework for Deno. It's written from scratch, using native Deno libraries.
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+This library is a reincarnation of my [Flitter framework](https://flitter.garrettmills.dev) for Node.js.
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+This library is organized as a mono-repo, and contains the following components:
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+- 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