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Tower.js is an open source full-stack web framework for Node.js and the browser.

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RailwayJS vs TowerJS

Again... selecting framework. I have stopped on these two TowerJS and RailwayJS, but it seams these are very similar and it is very difficult which way to choose Both are based on Express, both are RoR style frameworks... Which one is the most…
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Cannot find module 'coffee-script'

Trying to get a basic site set up with TowerJS as a test, but ran into this error when running the scaffold generator. Macbook:app john$ tower generate scaffold Post title:string body:text belongsTo:user { [Error: Cannot find module 'coffee-script']…
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Most mature native Node.js MySQL driver?

I'm using MySQL for a Rails application and would like to be able to use this database for a Node.js app (in particular Tower.js). What is the most mature and/or performant driver available for this at the moment? Due to @ryan's excellent input…
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Integrating Angular.js with Node.js (Express+Tower.js)

I am new to node. I very much like approach of AngularJS. I like what I see in towerjs. Has Anyone wired the two together? I have in mind tower primarily for backend api/rest and angular for clientside.
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Integrating Ember.js with Node.js (Express+Tower.js)

I'm looking into solutions for integrating Ember.js with Node.js+Express+Tower.js. I just started looking into Tower.js (the last couple of hours), and it looks like that the framework provides a nice structure for placing both server-side and…
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grunt watch using lots of cpu on Ubuntu 12.04

I'm using grunt to watch my coffeescript files in a towerjs project and recompile them as they change. The configuration for this is generated by towerjs and seems fairly sane. The problem is, that once I start this process I will see it pegging a…
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Where to start with my first real project using the Towerjs framework?

I'm a total noob. Over the last three or four months, I've worked through a dozen books, dozens of online tutorials, and watched hundreds of screencasts teaching myself first Rails (along with html, css, etc), Node, JS and my favorite Coffeescript.…
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Not able to start towerjs server after creating a new application "Cannot find module mongodb"

I'm a node newbie and have just started playing around with it. Since I have used rails a fair bit before I wanted to use a framework on node that is built around the same principles as rails. Tower.js seems to fit the bill nicely so I installed it…
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Layouts/Views in Towerjs

i have a quick question regarding views/layouts. I have installed & setup a working tower bot, however whenever i call: @render 'viewName' from within a controller, (this includes the example controller generated by running tower new appName) the…
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Tower.js on Windows 7: Cannot read property watchfile of null

I've followed the installation instructions for Tower.js, and am getting an error when I try to start the server. TypeError: Cannot read property 'watchfile' of null My steps for installing have been- Install node.js Install mongodb Install Ruby…
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How do I use One-to-Many Relationships in Tower.js?

So, I've been generating different scaffolds trying to use the One-to-Many relationship features of Tower, but I can't figure out how to actually link up the related instances to make use of the relationship. For instance, my most recent scaffolds…
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tower.js Install error on windows xp x86

I ran npm install tower -g, npm started and here is what I got: npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/tower npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/tower npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/underscore.string npm http GET…
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AngularJS + TowerJS Tutorial/Ressources

I'm from .net environment and i want to learn this frameworks via tutorials. Can you provide me some tutorials ? Regards, Guillaume
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Why are some many node.js web frameworks building based on Express? Why Does Express do not implement those features?

I am a newcomer to node.js techique stack. I found some many articles are introducing node.js and Express. I know Express is a good web framework including template engine, routing, etc. It is popular and active framework. There are some point I am…
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Errors after "forever server.js"

I'm using for the first time Tower.js and I'm following the README.md instructions. When I try to start the server with the "forever server.js" command, hereby the result: $ forever server.js info: socket.io started Tower development server…
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