Build fully featured high performance apps in less time using FOAM.
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Application Efficiency
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Developer Efficiency
"Fast apps Fast"
FOAM is a full-stack Reactive MVC Meta-Programming framework.
While it is written in Javascript, it can be used to generate code for any language or platform.
There is nothing to build. Just load any of the various .html demos.
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Documentation: Wiki
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Developer Discussion: [email protected]
FOAM has automated tests that can be run with npm test. This depends only on a working Node.js and npm.
There is also a pre-commit hook in hooks/pre-commit; it can be installed by running hooks/install.sh one time. Then the tests will run before any git commit and block the commit if they're failing.
Regression tests whose output has legitimately changed can be conveniently updated using the test page. That works as follows:
node --harmony tests/server.js
and then navigate to http:https://localhost:8888/tests/FOAMTests.html.
Any failed regression test will highlight its results with red borders, and the "Update Master" button will write the test's latest results into the master. This edits tests/FUNTests.xml, which you should then check in. Be careful to make sure the new output of the test is actually valid!
A small subset of tests require human oversight. These can be run using the server (see above) and then navigating to http:https://localhost:8888/tests/FOAMTests.html?ui=1 to see just the UI tests.
The ?ui=1 parameter shows only tests with the 'ui' tag.
FOAM can bootstrap itself at runtime using core/bootFOAM.js and friends.
However, we have a Grunt script that will build a combined foam.js and minified foam.min.js, which make for easier deployment.
To get started with Grunt, you'll need npm. Then you can run:
sudo npm install -g grunt-cli
npm install
grunt
Currently these files are bloated by rarely-used optional features like Canvas views, Google protobuffer support, and others. We plan to cut these out into separate files eventually.