Welcome to Kado

Install Kado using NPM or see Download for more details.

npm install kado

Collection of JavaScript Framework Libraries for Node.js

Quick Hello Server

Place the following code into an empty JavaScript file, example: app.js.

'use strict'
// import kado
const kado = require('kado')
// create application
const app = kado.getInstance()
// create a webserver
const http = new kado.HyperText.HyperTextServer()
// register the webserver
app.http.addEngine('http', http.createServer(app.router))
// register a route
app.get('/', (req, res) => { res.end('Hello') })
// start the application and listen
app.start().then(() => app.listen())

After saving the file, execute the code by running the following command from the same folder as the JavaScript file.

node app

Once the command has executed, a web server that says "Hello" will be available on port 3000 of your local machine, example: http://localhost:3000.

See more guides and examples below.

Features

• Single Node.js Module
• Compatible with Node.js 10 and above.
• Contains 51 libraries that cover a majority of coding tasks.
• Use libraries as needed and keep the code light.
• Consistent stable code that rarely changes.
• Complete reference documentation.
• Easy to learn, familiar, inspired by popular modules.
• Ready for continuous integration.

More Features

• Create servers that produce websites, APIs, or anything really.
• Create back ends for existing applications and save resources.
• Build command line applications quickly.
• Trusted by applications serving billions of page views.
• 0 external dependencies. The buck stops here!
• Libraries for most common application needs.
• Thoroughly tested, continuously integrated, actively developed.
• Make your own framework in just a few minutes!
• Code is peer reviewed, openly developed, openly licensed.
• Assertion, validation, and test running built in.
• LGPL 3.0 License. Use Kado where you need it.
• Easily setup web servers to replace Apache, NGINX, and others.

Get Started with our Guides

Our guides provide a step by step experience to learn how to use Kado to go from saying "Hello" on a web port to writing a working administration panel. Once these guides are completed, building websites and applications using Kado should feel second nature. Each guide below is accompanied by a link to the full guide as well as a short description of what each guide provides.

• Getting Started - Get started using Kado and create a simple project that says "Hello" via HTTP on localhost port 3000.
• HelloWorld - Building upon the GettingStarted guide, this guide will introduce rendering and templates that say "Hello World" with HTML.
• Make a Simple Website - Continuing from the HelloWorld guide we add partials, static file serving, CSS, and navigation to create a simple working website.
• Build an Admin Panel - Now with Make a Simple Website complete, we continue to explore how to build an administration panel on top of our simple website.
• Database Work Flows - With a working Admin Panel the next step is to setup a connection to a database so we can store the data created by the application.
• Working With Email - Explore sending emails using the Kado provided libraries and connecting to an email server.
• Views and Rendering - Everything you need to know about the Kado view system and how to render views.
• Writing Tests - Write tests against your application easily using the provided Kado library.

Library List

See our Kado Library List

Questions or Problems?

Please see our bug tracker

Change Log

Please see the CHANGELOG

Contributing

Please see the Contribution Guidelines