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The easiest way to use fortjs is by installing - fort-creator. fort-creator is a cli package which helps you with fortjs development.

So, Install the fort-creator globally by runing command -

  • Using npm - npm i fort-creator -g

  • Using yarn - yarn global add fort-creator


After you have successfully installed, run the below commands -

  • create new project - fort-creator new my-app, here "my-app" is name of the project.

  • move to project directory - cd my-app

  • start dev server - fort-creator start


Browse the url - http://localhost:4000

You will see something like below -


Understanding project


Let's understand the project structures -

  • Open the project folder in your favourite code editor. You will see many folders inside project root such as controllers, views, etc. Every folder is grouped by their use like controllers folder contains all controller & views folder contains all view.

  • Open folder controllers. Inside the controllers you will see a file name - default_controller, lets open it and observe the code. The file contains a class DefaultController - this is a controller class and it contains list of resources of particular type. Please check out controller doc for knowing about controller.

  • Inside the class DefaultController -> you will see a method 'index' with decorator 'DefaultWorker' - this is the one which is rendering output to browser. The method is known as worker in fortjs because it does some work & return result. We have marked it as worker by using decorator 'DefaultWorker'. Please check out worker doc for more info about worker.

  • Let's observe the index method code:

const data= {
    title: 'FortJs'
};
const result = await viewResult('default/index.html', data);
return result;

It creates a data object and passes that object into viewResult method. The viewResult method takes the view location and view data. The work of viewResult is to render the view and return response.

  • The view files are inside views folder. Let's observe it - open views Folder -> open default folder - > open index.html. This is our view code - it contain simple html code with some mustache syntax. Please check view doc for more info.


Hope this will give you a good idea about fortjs. Now let's create something awesome.

For more help, Check out these links


Alternatively you can also clone/download starter template -


After downloading the repo - open the console, move to project directory and run the commands -

  • npm install - It will install all the dependency
  • npm run start - It will run the app.