Getting started

To make it easier to build websites for Node.js, we've created a set of minimal libraries to get you going.

All you need to get started is access to node and can install packages with npm.

npm -g install proton micro

Create lib/webapp.js and add the following code:

var micro = require('micro'),
    WebApp = exports.WebApp = micro.webapp(),
    get    = WebApp.get;
    
get('/', function (request, response) {
    response.ok('text/html');
    return 'hello, world';
});

Now run your app with Proton.

proton -r

You can now visit http://localhost:8080/ in your browser to see the text "hello, world".

The -r argument means that changes you make to your webapp will be automatically reloaded, making development faster.

Right, what next?

• Try some fancier URL matching.
• Create HTML templates with Spectrum.
• Start writing unit tests with Litmus.
• Have a look at what we offer.