A curated list of awesome ColdFusion frameworks, libraries and software. Inspired by awesome-javascript.
Pull requests very welcome.
Application Frameworks
- CFWheels - An open source CFML framework inspired by Ruby on Rails.
- ColdBox - The Enterprise ColdFusion MVC Development Platform
- FarCry - FarCry Core is a web application framework that helps CFML developers build tailor-made content solutions, fast.
- FW/1 - Framework One - a lightweight, convention over configuration, MVC application framework
Testing
- CFSelenium - A native Selenium RC binding for ColdFusion
- MockBox - The ColdFusion Mocking/Stubbing Framework
- MXUnit - xUnit style unit testing framework
- mxunit-watch - watch a directory for file changes (.cfc, .cfm, .xml) to trigger mxunit test suite full run, displaying results in the console
- TestBox - BDD style unit testing framework
Dependency Injection
- ColdSpring - ColdSpring makes the configuration and dependencies of your CFCs easier to manage. ColdSpring brings the power of the popular Spring framework for Java to ColdFusion.
- DI/1 - Inject One - a very lightweight, convention over configuration, dependency injection (inversion of control) framework
- Wirebox - The Enterprise Dependency Injection Framework
NoSQL
- CFArango - ArangoDB client for ColdFusion
- CFCouchbase - Couchbase NoSQL and caching client wrapper for ColdFusion
- cfmongodb - MongoDB client wrapper for ColdFusion
REST
- ColdBox REST - Native REST routing and rendering capababilities
- FW/1 REST - Native REST routing and rendering capababilities
- Taffy - The REST Web Service framework for ColdFusion and Railo
- CFWheels RESTful - CFWheels encourages a conventional RESTful and resourceful style of request handling.
Other Libraries
- CacheBox - The Enterprise ColdFusion Caching Engine, Aggregator and API
- cfbackport - Back porting features contained in newer versions of ColdFusion.
- cfpayment - ColdFusion payment processing library makes plumbing e-commerce apps easy. Charging credit cards has never been easier. Inspired by Ruby's ActiveMerchant.
- BugLogHQ - Exception Tracking
- JavaLoader - JavaLoader is a library that has been built to ease the use, development and integration of Java within ColdFusion applications.
- LogBox - The Enterprise ColdFusion Logging Library
- Moment.cfc - Moment.js inspired date/time manipulation library for CFML (not a direct port)
- Mustache.cfc - {{ mustache }} for ColdFusion
- UnderscoreCF - An UnderscoreJS port for Coldfusion. Functional programming library.
References
- CF411 - CF411: 1,800+ Tools and Resources for CFers, (in over 150 categories) by Charlie Arehart
- CFLib - Common Function Library Project
- ColdFusion Koans - The ColdFusion Koans are a set of unit tests that the user must make pass by filling in values
- ColdFusion UI the Right Way - A list of articles demonstrating how to do UI with ColdFusion on the back end.
- Learn CF in a Week - community driven training program that teaches all the basics you need to be a ColdFusion Developer in one week.
- Try ColdFusion - Realtime interactive learning tool for CFML
Resources
- CFRepo - A repository of ColdFusion installers created by Gavin Pickin
- lucee5-heroku - Application template for deploying Lucee 5 apps to Heroku by Mike Sprague
- Vagrant LEMTL - Vagrant box with Linux, Nginx, MariaDB (or MySQL), Tomcat, and Lucee for local development with CFML by Mike Sprague
- ACF Docker Images on Amazon ECR and Docker Hub - Official Docker images from Adobe
- Lucee Docker Images Docker Hub - Official Docker images from Lucee