Globals & constants

Global constants

These values are globally available:

Paths

• PATH_ROOT: Path to the directory of the server.js file
• PATH_APP: Path to the directory of the base app folder ({PATH_ROOT}/app)
• PATH_TEMP: Path to the temporary directory ({PATH_ROOT}/temp)
• PATH_CORE: Path to the core lib directory ({PATH_ROOT}/node_modules/alchemymvc/lib)

Functions

• DEFINE(name, value): Function used to create a new global property
• die(...args): Function used to terminate the current process

Classes

• Classes: All classes (even the non-global ones) and namespaces are stored here
• Alchemy: The Alchemy class
• Datasource: The base Datasource class
• Deck: A map-like object
• Informer: An event-emitter class, inherited by almost every Alchemy class (through Alchemy.Base)
• Pledge: A promise-like class

Class instances

• alchemy: Instance of the (also globally available) Alchemy class
• Blast: Protoblast instance
• janeway: Instance of the Janeway terminal interface