Adonis 3.0 is going to be the most stable release so far. In past few months, we have gathered plenty of feedback, solved a handful of issues and progressively made Adonis the most practical framework in the community.

The newer version is going to have breaking changes and this dev release is a sneak peek of same. If you are planning to start a new project, consider using the dev release as it is going to be the future.

Setting up dev project

You can make use of adonis-cli to setup the dev project, but make sure to pass the --dev flag.

adonis new yardstick --dev

What’s new?

Lots of new features have been added to the framework that I will be talking about, also trello board can be used as a reference for same https://trello.com/b/yzpqCgdl/adonis-for-humans.

Model Hooks

Model hooks have been introduced to keep your code DRY by attaching hooks to your models, which are called on...

Official Website http://adonisjs.com

Being a JavaScript developer, I adopted Node Js in its early days and no matter what, it has been a joyful journey.

Npm being the largest package manager (http://www.modulecounts.com) offers a bunch of tools to improve your everyday workflow. I myself have used nearly every popular package until I reached the point of saturation.

This saturation point is the real factor, I decided to write Adonis Js and approached things differently from all other libraries and frameworks offered by the community. This post is not a comparison to any existing frameworks, in fact, an opportunity to share the broader view of Adonis Js.

I generally receive questions on why to use Adonis Js over Sails Js or Express/Koa.

Express/Koa are thin wrappers over the Node Http server, which may be best suited for certain applications but the majority of applications requires...

With the release of Adonis 2.0, i have received lot of queries on how to authenticate requests in Adonis.

Adonis is an MVC framework for NodeJs, it borrows the concept of Service providers from popular PHP Framework Laravel.

I personally divides authentications into two different parts. First the stateful authentication where we save cookies into browser and use it to find login state for a given user. Other one is the stateless authentication, where each request is authenticated.

The later one is quite popular with RestFul API’s, where we authenticate every API request and a common way to achieve that is to make use of Basic Auth.

In this article, i will share the process of writing a middleware and then authenticating routes with the help of basicauth middleware. Also the final code is available on https://github.com/thetutlage/adonis-auth-tutorial.

Creating a new application

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