batman.js

It's perfect for creating interactive, user-friendly and single-page browser apps.

Tested and working with Google Chrome, Safari 4+, IE 7+ and Firefox 3+.

Inspired by Ruby on Rails.

Features:

• Stateful MVC architecture
• Powerful binding system
• Routable controller actions
• Pure HTML views
• Toolchain support built on Node.js and Cake

What is new in this release:

• Added:
• App.shouldAllowEvent.[event]. Callbacks in this hash will be called whenever the corresponding data-event is fired from anywhere within the app. Return false to prevent app-level propagation. For example: coffeescript class MyApp extends Batman.App @shouldAllowEvent.click = (event) -> return false
• Fixed:
• Prevent additional history items from being created if the users navigates to the page they are already on.
• Fixed:
• Nested resource routing names.

What is new in version v0.12.0:

• Add Model.createFromJSON as a shortcut for booting models from JSON and sticking them in the identity map
• Add the as option to Model.encode which allows serialization into a key other than the key mentioned in encode
• Add Rails style optional route segments with ()
• Add a trim filter
• Give most validations the allowBlank option to force them to pass if the value is undefined or the empty string
• Add an AssociatedValidator added by calling Model.validate 'name', associated: true
• Make Controllers stop executing the rest of the action when a redirect occurs in a beforeFilter.
• Add a Proxy class for proxying an object

What is new in version v0.8.0:

• Add Batman.StateHistory for pushState navigation support
• View source html can be prefetched via View.viewSourceCache.prefetch
• Major refactoring of view bindings into class based hierarchy
• Add data-defineview to allow view sources to be declared inline
• Add Association support to Model via Model.hasOne, Model.hasMany, Model.belongsTo
• Add smart AssociationProxy objects which support reloading
• Add support for loading associations with inline JSON
• Add support for ? and ! in property names and keypaths
• Store the current params on the Batman.currentApp for introspection.
• Add ParamsReplacer and ParamsPusher as smart objects which when set, update the global params, pushState or replaceState, and redirect.
• Add Hash::update, Hash::replace, and Set::update
• Add Set::indexedByUnique
• Add Batman.contains for membership testing and accompanying has filter
• Add support for JSONP requests in batman.solo
• Add final property support to optimize observing properties which will never change
• Add Batman.version
• Add support for customizable render targets in Controller::render

What is new in version v0.7.5:

• Pagination through Batman.Paginator and Batman.ModelPaginator
• Nested resources routes
• Unknown params passed to urlFor will be appended to the query string
• App.layout accepts a class name which will automatically instantiate that class upon load
• Controller::render accepts an into option, which lets you render into a yield other than main
• yield/contentFor/replace are now animatable through show/hide
• Interpolate filter
• Pleasant reminders if you seem to have forgotten some encoders
• Removing nodes will destroy all their bindings
• Batman.setImmediate for fast stack popping

What is new in version v0.6.1:

• Added Batman.Enumerable
• Added support for multi-select boxes
• Added batman.rails.coffee, a new adapter for use within Rails
• Added developer namespace for easy debugging (it gets stripped out in building)
• One way bindings have been changed to data-source and data-target to avoid ambiguity
• Added data-bind support for input type='file'
• Added data-event-doubleclick
• Added length filter
• Added trim helper
• Controller.resources creates a new route instead of destroy
• Model.find will always return the shared record instance. You can then bind to this and when the data comes in from the storage adapter, your instance will be updated
• Added Model::findOrCreate
• Added Model::updateAttributes
• Allow storage adapters to specific their namespace with storageKey
• storage adapter filter callbacks take errors
• Added App.ready event that fires once the layout is ready in the DOM
• Normalize status/statusCode in Batman.Request
• Hashes now have meta objects to non-obtrusively bind metadata like length

Requirements:

• Node.js 0.4 or higher