122 CFWheels ColdFusion Framework (new structure and features), with Peter Amiri

Peter Amiri talks about “CFWheels ColdFusion Framework (new structure and features)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. "...CFwheels is another ColdFusion framework. And it was originally modeled after Ruby on Rails. So if you remember back in the early 2000s, when Ruby on Rails came out, it was a complete mind change on how applications could be built. And that's why I got a huge following. And there was a lot of effort on the ColdFusion side to see if we could take that momentum that Rails had and bring that framework over to the ColdFusion side of the house..." Show notes What is CFWheels? Ruby on Rails for CF MVC framework vs procedural or heaven forbit spaghetti code Convention over configuration Eg Views dir vs XML config Built in structure / scaffolding The CFWheels open source project has been around since 2005 CFWheels is an open source CFML (ColdFusion Markup Language) framework inspired by Ruby on Rails that provides fast application development, a great organization system for your code, and is just plain fun to use. One of our biggest goals is for you to be able to get up and running with CFWheels quickly. Why should you use CFWheels? Types of CF Devs Professional devs, CS trained, modern development patterns Self learned developers, procedural devs Easy onramp to Self learned devs to get MVC benefits without doing a CS degree first While modern for CS type devs Getting started materials Using CommandBox can get a sample CFWheels app in 5 seconds Moving from legacy CF frameworks Fusebox, Model-Glue, Mach-2, F/W 1 If MVC used then translates easily New CFWheels dev team Changing of the Guards at CFWheels Peter frontman/evangelist and admin and structure Been involved in CFWheels since near the beginning Worked on the CFWheels CLI project Worked with Rails books author to draft CFWheels book, which needed CLI Uses CFWheels in work projects Joined the core team Tom King, David Belanger, Adam Chapman, Per Djurner focusing on coding CFWheels Admin burnout, stepping back a bit Major CFWheels features Easy MVC Industry established concept MVC Easy MVC, no need OO expert compared to ColdBox Or legacy CF frameworks ModelGlue, Mach2 Conventions Routing engine Resource based RESTful routing engine for GET, POST, PUT, PATCH & DELETE Databases CFWheels uses ORM and Migrations. for database Less CRUD and SQL coding Automatically works if database structure changes Or even database changes Built in database migration system even across different DBMS App Documentation Automatic App Documentation using the built in doc viewer which grows with your application From special comments. Similar idea to JavaDocs Eg CFWheels API uses this Local docs (offline work) CFWheels API Lets you call the atomic components of CFWheels separately https://api.cfwheels.org/v2.4 Hybrid Development - Switch in and out of Wheels conventions Ecosystem CFWheels plugins at ForgeBox Add to the framework core Overwrite core functionality to change behavior https://www.forgebox.io/type/cfwheels-plugins Eg bCrypt, JWT, SAML, dotEnvSettings shortcodes CFWheels Fully Embraces ForgeBox Packages Community CFWheels has moved to GitHub Discussions. https://github.com/cfwheels/cfwheels/discussions Google discussions archived The CFWheels Channel on CFML Slack Has Been Archived the reasons for this move are to Move our discussions closer to the code in GitHub, allowing the poster and respondent to more easily link to specific branches, files, and even lines of code. Issues can be converted to discussions if they warrant further community input or discussions promoted to an issue once an issue or feature has had ope...