Awesome ColdFusion

A curated list of awesome ColdFusion frameworks, libraries and software. Inspired by awesome-javascript.

Pull requests very welcome.

• Awesome ColdFusion
  • Engines
  • Application Frameworks
  • Testing
  • Dependency Injection
  • Content Management Systems
  • NoSQL
  • REST
  • Other Libraries
  • Editors
  • Tools
  • References
  • Resources
  • Documentation

Engines

• Adobe ColdFusion
• Lucee - Free, Open Source CFML Engine

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
• ModelGlue - a CFML based, full stack, front controller based on MVC. Features include Scaffolding, ORM integration, and many others

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

CMS

• CONTENS CMS - Professional Content Management
• ContentBox - A powerful modular content management engine
• FarCry CMS
• Mura
• Preside CMS - an open source CMS for the Railo language
• Slatwall - An Open Source Commerce Platform

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.
• Hoth - Exception Tracking
• BugLogHQ - Exception Tracking
• iQuery - Sane script querying syntax for Adobe ColdFusion, compatible as far back as CF9. Looks and behaves much like queryExecute().
• 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.
• ValidateThis - A Validation Framework for ColdFusion Objects

Editors

• CFML Package for Sublime Text 3 - CFML syntax highlighting as well as function and tag completions for Sublime Text 3
• CFML Extension for Visual Studio Code - CFML Language extension for VSCode
• CFML Language for Atom - CFML Language plugin for Atom
• Adobe ColdFusion Builder 3 - Eclipse based ColdFusion IDE from Adobe
• IntelliJ Idea - Java IDE, CFML Support available via plugin
• cfbrackets - adds support for ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML) to Brackets Code Editor
• CFEclipse - CFML Plugin for Eclipse
• TextMate - TextMate support for ColdFusion

Tools

• CommandBox - ColdFusion (CFML) CLI, Package Manager, REPL and more
• Unofficial Updater - A utility that helps install ColdFusion hotfixes

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

Documentation

• Adobe ColdFusion Documentation - The Official Adobe ColdFusion docs
• CFDocs - UltraFast CFML Documentation Reference.
• CFML Tags to CFScript Reference - CFML Tag to Script Conversions by Tony Junkes
• CFQuickDocs - ColdFusion documentation
• CFScript Reference - CFScript Documentation by Adam Cameron
• Lucee Wiki - Official Lucee Documentation
• Official Lucee Server Documentation - New Lucee Documentation
• Railo Documentation - Official Railo docs

License

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