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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

Curious how it looks? 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. Don't want to use MongoDB? Feathers has plugins for many other databases and you can easily write your own adapters.

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