cowtown

a cookbook 📖 for pragmatic server-side application development via middleware-pipelines.

cowtown covers many how-to's of a wide range of application concerns. it demonstrates fulfillment of those concerns via koa.

cowtown is generally not software--it is mainly documentation, covering how to effectively use the abundance of existing software. in some cases, cowtown ships a minimal amount of code to support some common use cases.

target audience

all interested parties.

goals

• documentation. share patterns and codified implementations for common application concerns
• encourage server development that rewards:
  • simplicity over ease
  • composition
  • flat-ish dependency trees
    • share community modules, whilst avoiding deeply nested hard-to-[configure|debug|reason-about] middleware packages