Documentation

The Book of Recess

Installation Instructions

Step-by-step directions for installing Recess and creating your first app.

Getting Started with Recess Tutorial

This tutorial will walk you step-by-step through the creation of a new Recess application. We will explain the process using Tools and look behind the curtains to understand the structure of a Recess application.

Take Control of the Controller

Understanding the controller, how to create Routes, and how the controller and view interact is key to Recess development. This tutorial demonstrates fundamental concepts like getting data from the HTTP request object, using parametric routes, and returning HTTP responses with RESTful response codes.

RESTful Routing

In this 10 minute screencast + tutorial an in depth look is taken at Routing annotations. Recess' powerful, RESTful routing system is shown in full detail. Learn how to use relative, cascading routes to achieve D.R.Y. routing logic.

Models and Relationships with the ORM

Learn about Recess' ORM that makes data models easy to implement, simple to relate, and flexible to query. Recess uses Django/jQuery style method chaining to programatically build up SQL queries. You can even chain over relationships!

Tutorial: Creating a Basic Blog in Recess

Set up the basic blog that lists and displays posts

Create, update, and delete blog posts using Recess' ORM

Use model relationships to connect Posts to Authors