a cookbook đź“– 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.
all interested parties.
- 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