Welcome to Documentation for Tantalim

Overview

Learn how to create feature-rich, legacy-friendly, web-powered applications in a fraction of time it takes using traditional software developers.

Social

Discussions on Google+

Q&A will be done on StackOverflow in the future. TODO - Need someone with 1500+ reputation to create a tag for tantalim.

Architecture

Page Layer

Rich functionality, custom scripts, and business logic.

Model Layer

Security. Join across multiple tables using one-to-many relationships, many-to-one relationships, or both.

Table Layer

Tantalim's advanced ORM and rich meta data.

Database

Relational databases such as MySQL, Oracle and SQL Server. Coming later, No SQL databases such as MongoDB and Cassandra.

Page Flow

• Browser
  • GET http://localhost:3000/page/BuildTable/ (cacheable only for anonymous use)
  • tantalim-server
    • server.js
    • routes/index.js
    • controllers/pageControllers.js desktop()
      • views/desktop.html
        • Very lightweight shell, besides the need for future security, this could be done 100% client side

• Browser (HTML)

  • GET http://localhost:3000/page-definition/BuildTable (cacheable)
  • tantalim-server
    • server.js
    • routes/index.js
    • controllers/pageControllers.js pageDefinition()
      • services/pageService.js
      • services/modelService.js
      • page/pageDefinition.js
        • Compiled JavaScript for the custom model and the page objects. This is the "Tantalim bytecode" that is used to generate the pages.

• Browser (AngularJS)

  • /lib/tantalim-client/public/js/tantalim-desktop.js (cacheable)
    • tantalim.desktop.$routeProvider
      • GET http://localhost:3000/page/BuildTable/html (cacheable)
      • tantalim-server
        • server.js
        • routes/index.js
        • controllers/pageControllers.js htmlBody()
        • HTML partial used by AngularJS to display the content.
          • static HTML content or
          • page/htmlBody partial
            • page
              • html_view
                • html_view_single
    • tantalim.desktop.PageController
      • tantalim.common.PageService
      • tantalim.common.ModelCursor
      • tantalim.common.ModelSaver
      • tantalim.desktop.PageCursor
      • ...and more
      • GET http://localhost:3000/data/BuildTable (dynamic)
      • tantalim-server
        • server.js
        • routes/index.js
        • controllers/dataController.js query()
          • services/dataReader.js