Quick Start

Installation

Trillo requires Node.js v.16 or higher. If you don't have it on you machine, download it from the Node.js site and install it before proceeding.

npm install -g trillo

Once installed, we can use the trillo serve command to start a development server.

Hello World

mkdir myapp
trillo serve myapp
# ... http://localhost:3000

We can add a simple page...

<!-- myapp/index.html -->
<html>
  <body :count="[[0]]"
        :did-init="[[
          setInterval(() => count++, 1000);
        ]]">
    Seconds: [[count]]
  </body>
</html>

...and open http://localhost:3000 to see the seconds counter live.

Use in a project

Let's create a demo project:

mkdir myproject
cd myproject
npm init -y
npm install trillo
mkdir docroot

We need to add an entry point with our configuration:

// index.js
const trillo = require('trillo');
const path = require('path');

new trillo.Server({
  port: 3001,
  rootPath: path.join(__dirname, 'docroot'),
});

In TypeScript (or ES6 code) we can use imports instead:

// index.ts
import { Server } from 'trillo';
import path from 'path';

new Server({
  port: 3001,
  rootPath: path.join(__dirname, 'docroot'),
});

We can now create a page in docroot/ like shown above and run the project:

node index.js
# ... START http://localhost:3001

When using Trillo in a project we can customize it and add our own services and middleware to the server. All options are documented in the Server Reference.

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