Utopia Documentation Wiki

This wiki includes documentation and examples showing how to use Utopia. You can also browse the code documentation for more detail. Feel free to edit any part of this documentation and submit a PR.

Introduction Guide

Reading these pages in order will give you an overview of the design of Utopia, how to set it up for local development and how to deploy it.

• Development Environment Setup
• Server Setup
• Your First Page
  • What is .xnode?
• Installing JavaScript Libraries
• Website Tests
• Updating Your Site

Middleware

The following are Rack Middleware which provide the core of Utopia.

• Static — Serve static files efficiently.
• Redirection — Redirect URL patterns and status codes.
• Localization — Non-intrusive localization of resources.
• Controller — Flexible nested controllers with efficient behaviour.
  • Controller Actions — Invoke named actions.
  • Controller Rewrite — Pattern match requests.
• Content — XML-style template engine with dynamic markup.
• Session — Session storage using encrypted client-side cookies.

Examples

Here are some open-source sites built on Utopia.

• www.codeotaku.com (source) — Personal website, blog.
• Financier (source) — Small business management platform, invoicing.