baldr

Baldr

Baldr is a web tool that enables you to create a website utilising the power of angularjs and requirejs. It comes with a micro command line utility that lets you add and remove pages.

config.js

This file contains a sitemap definition in the variable pages. Each page has two attributes: name and label.

label represents the text that will appear in the links list, name is the handle to configure the rest of the necessary files.

By convention, the engine will look for app/views/*.html and app/scripts/controllers/*.js files with the same name as the name of a page. I.e. if you create a page biography, you will need to place a biography.html file in app/views and a biography.js in app/scripts/controllers.

The last step to do is to register the relevant controller in app/scripts/main.js (the requirejs config file), where you will register the capitalised name of the page plus 'Ctrl' as a controller. In our biography case you will need a line like so:

require.config({
  paths: {
    // ... definitions
    'BiographyCtrl': 'controllers/biography.js',
    // more definitions...
  }
})

using sm.js

If you prefer you can use sm.js, a command line mini-tool for adding and removing pages.

node sm.js add <pagename> <page label> adds the page creating an automatic entry in the menu, configuring a controller, creating a .html file for the view.

node sm.js remove <pagename> removes the page, cleans up main.js, the view and controller files.

conclusion

More or less that's it. Feel free to destroy the css and go ahead replacing the existing pages and creating new ones. Head to [www.doomsword.com] to see Baldr in action.