What was LostMVC - Codru - Web Framework

Modules holding Models, vieews, controllers

Write once use everywhere.. Simple Model validation on client side and also automatically done on server side.
Easy integrated flash messages for errors on forms.

Pre and Post action functions that run automatically.

Thanks to the HTML generation most of the view functions are simplified.
FORM generation
Gridview and Listview modules supporting: pagination, sorting, searching, caching, model integration

You write SQL then the code generator creates your Model upon which you can use as input so the project build a full controller with views.

Something similar to Active Record

Any good web framework needs a RBAC system.
A great framework has a interface for it.

Authorization could be controled using basic roles.
A role item can be a parent or a child. Users can have roles assigened to them.
Different roles based on the controller/module.

Guest roles, authenticated roles, and of course super admin roles are already provided by default.

Sub roles

Included Authorization and Authentication.
Register and Login pages that where fully extensible.
Security settings which included

Simple generation of HTML without having to write HTML.
Links, lists, alerts, tables, forms,labels, inputs, jumbotron, breadcrumbs, checkboxes, radioboxes, dropdowns.
Navigation and menu generation, panels, tabs, modals, tooltips, carousel and image galleries etc..
Font awesome integration.
Automatic pagination
HTML/CSS/JS plugins integration. Automatic style/link insertion in the page based on the functions you used.

Form generation based on the specific needs.

Integrated plugins which can be easily used. Automatic javascript includer ONLY if the feature is used on a page.
Caching and JS lazy loading included!

Since naviserver nor tcl provided a session management system like the one in PHP I had to copy and implement my own session management system.
It worked in flat files but could easily have been extended to memory or database.

Powerful caching. Half of the work was done by the Naviserver internals API.
Caching SQL queries, portions of pages, or full pages. Options to cache in memory and/or as a file on disk.
Fastpath caching of CSS/JS files that are cached in RAM and are handled by different threads/processes.
This really speeds up everything.

Built in support for multi language support using msgcat (tcl package).
Detecting favourite language could be tweaked for each app based on a succession of the following:
OS/Browser language, Location, Cookie/session
Default fallback to specified language user based configuration.

NaviServer can be tweaked for anything. So I tweaked it to allow uploads of huge files.
This meant even if your ram was limited (say 1 GB) you can still upload a 10 GB file without any issue.

The known issue of UI/UX "Are you sure you want to delete this?"
I’ve built a Recycle Bin special table which keeps all deleted data from models.
THis way a undo can easily be done at anytime without the end user even noticing anything.

When deleting anything via the built in controller you can easily undo any "accidental" deletion.

All the developer has to do is show the user a link to it. Or create a page of recently deleted items.
A daily script can be used to delete things that haven’t been recovered.

Simple commandline code generation and management. (see tcl/installer.tcl)

Tags are powerful. Builtin tags are even more powerful. This way you can tag anything.

Since naviserver didn’t have a php mail function I needed to use SMTP services for mail sending.
So if I needed to implement SMTP then why not integrate services like mandril?

User registration and management was not an afterthought it was the basic need for any system.
User creation, login, password management, forgotten password, e-mail activation.
Login attempts and reset attempts limiting by blocking the user temporarily.

What do you do when you need to add another user field to the database?
Do you modify the whole database? I sure hope not.
NO, you just use a few special tables and a good crafted script. This way you can add as many fields as you want anytime
Without negative impact to the overal working of the system.
I’ve built a system for admins of websites to be able to add profiles for users on the fly without any code.
This way if your app needs information about a user’s birthdate or favourite food you don’t need to modify the whole system.

There was no yum install, nor any apt-get install for anything except Tcl.
So I had to manually (cross)compile everything myself.
This included Naviserver, the Next Scripting Framework
and all of the extra modules nsdbi, nsdbilite, nsdbipg.

Also manual setup of postgresql and the whole system.
This cumbersome work was needed for every naviserver installation.
Since i didn’t like to clone VPSes i needed to do it every time.

i eventually built a self contained script using tclkit and cookit that does the installation and configuration for me.
This includes downloading, compiling and setting up the services necesary.
Not to mention each step could be configured by the user while installing or a fully unattended install.

Please note that none of these are available anymore.
The project has been abandoned and so have the projects built with LostMVC.
Some of them have been rewritten, others have also been abandoned:
Read more here The LostMVC project is officialy abandoned - Reasons and what I’ve learned

Not online anymore
But you ca view a temporary snapshot from the wayback machine.
Note that the wayback machine didn’t manage to create a snapshot of the CSS/images due to a specific trick I used to avoid leeching of CSS/images.
https://web.archive.org/web/20161001054213/http://bibliografie.info/ro/lucrare/index

This is a PBBG (Persistent Browser Based Game) I’ve developed in the past.
The first version was for a Websh Apache Module. It was developed between 2007 and 2008 before I went to college.
The second version was for the Codru LostMVC web framework that I had developed between 2014-2015.
I;m currently working on an Elixir version for the purpose of learning OTP.

A snapshot of it can be found here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20161006203229/http://unitedbrainpower.com/