rJS (‘rapidJS’)

rJS is a 
framework .

rJS (pron. ‘rapidJS’) is for plugin-based builds, and
a progressive web server with virtual build capabilities.

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A Powerful Framework.
For a JS-powered Web.

rJS is an open source web application development, and progressive server framework for JavaScript that is a brilliantly simple, yet powerful developer tool. rJS compiles all build tasks through individual, isolated plugins, i.e. a uniform build interface. It offers progressive web server features to move from development to production in a blink of an eye.

├─ /api │ └─ user.js ├─ /src │ └─ /scss │ ├─ __rjs.plugin.js (how to build) │ └─ app.scss → https:…/app.css └─ /public ├─ /img → https:…/img/**/* └─ index.html → https:…/index.html
rjs emit OR rjs serve

Plugin-based Development.
Encapsulated and reusable.

rJS brings a streamlined plugin-based approach to web application development. It inherently enforces a high quality development methodology, and subsequently low maintainability effort. In fact, plugins can be reused across apps and organisations with ease – and with the tools you already know.

import UglifyJS from "uglify-js"; // Uniform plugin (build) interface export default function(rJS, srcFiles) { return new rJS.File( "/app.js", // file to emit (built) UglifyJS.minify( srcFiles.get("app.js").contents ).code ); }
Plugins

Based on a reasoned plugin model that unifies builds, and enforces architectural quality.

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Server

Production-ready web server capabilities with virtualised plugin-based builds.

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Cluster

Optimised hardware utilisation by multi process/thread request handler concurrency.

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Caches

High throughput due to multiple complementary caching mechanisms.

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Security

Coverage of common security requirements – TLS, request validation, and rate limits.

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Configuration

Configuration of a range of properties by virtue of simple parametrical JSON files.

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Leaky Scope

Custom frontend APIs via leaky scope, a concept to access server modules from the client.

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Unopinionation

Compatibility with any higher level frontend framework such as React, Vue or Angular.

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A Framework.
An Ecosystem.


Framework Icon Framework

rJS is a web application framework, and the centre of the rJS ecosystem – with zero third-party dependencies.

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Plugins Icon Plugins

Boost productivity with public, reusable plugins that solve common web development tasks.

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Templates Icon Templates

Templates are great to quickstart projects, and provide fundamental development best practices.

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A new framework for the web.

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