Foxx applications

Foxx is an easy way to create APIs and simple web applications from within ArangoDB. It is inspired by Sinatra, the classy Ruby web framework.

If you have created a nice Foxx application and you want to share it with the community out there, clone this repository, add a short description to the "applications" folder and issue a pull request.

"hello-foxx" is the hello world example for Foxx. Its description file can be found in the applications folder.

{
  "description": "This is 'Hallo World' for ArangoDB Foxx.",
  "author": "Frank Celler",

  "versions": {
    "1.2.0" : { "type": "github", "location": "fceller/hello-foxx", "tag": "v1.2.0" }
  }
}

The description file is a JSON document with the attributes:

• description: a short description of the application
• author: the name of the author, an email address, or a twitter handle
• versions: a list of available versions

In order to install this application into your local ArangoDB installation, you can use the foxx-manager like this

foxx-manager install hello-foxx /hello

This will download the application into your local installation of ArangoDB (which must be up and running) and mount it under the path "/hello".

If you now visit

http://localhost:8529/hello

you should see a nice fox.