Feathers is a real-time, micro-service web framework for NodeJS that gives you control over your data via RESTful resources, sockets and flexible plug-ins.
Getting started
Visit the website at feathersjs.com to read the Getting started guide or learn how to build real-time applications with jQuery, Angular, React, CanJS, iOS, Android - you name it - and Feathers as the backend in our guides.
A MongoDB REST and real-time API
Want to see it in action? Here is a full REST and real-time todo API that uses MongoDB:
// app.js var feathers = require('feathers'); var mongodb = require('feathers-mongodb'); var bodyParser = require('body-parser'); var app = feathers(); var todoService = mongodb({ db: 'feathers-demo', collection: 'todos' }); app.configure(feathers.rest()) .configure(feathers.socketio()) .use(bodyParser.json()) .use('/todos', todoService) .use('/', feathers.static(__dirname)) .listen(3000);
Then run
npm install feathers feathers-mongodb body-parser
node app
and go to http://localhost:3000/todos. That's all the code you need to have a full real-time CRUD API.
Don't want to use MongoDB? Feathers has plugins for many other databases and you can easily write your own adapters.



