What is SomaCore?

SomaCore is a lightweight event-based MVC framework written in AS3 that provides a structure, models, views management and commands. Somacore can be used for Flash, Flex and AIR projects.

SomaCore is completely event-based and use a concept of wires to code in a efficient decoupled way. SomaCore can be used with or without dependency injection, and provide an injector adapter for the included DI library: SwiftSuspenders.

You can use SomaCore in anything, except to include/distribute it in another framework, application, template, component or structure that is meant to build, scaffold or generate source files.

Few things to know:

• SomaCore requires the stage to be instantiated.
• SomaCore can be used as a registry framework, dependendy injection framework, or both in the same time.
• Another Dependency Injection library can easily be used instead of the default one.
• Commands are normal built-in Flash events with the bubbles property set to true.
• Commands can be used in the views as they are not framework code.
• Wires are the glue of the frameworks elements (models, commands, views, wires) and can be used the way you wish, as proxy/mediators or managers.
• Wires can manage one class or multiple classes.
• Mediators are automatically created and removed when a view is added or removed from a display list (with or without injection enabled).
• Parallel and sequence commands are built-in.
• You can create and register customs plugins to the framework (such as the SomaDebugger plugin).
• You can access to all the framework elements that you have registered (stage, framework instance, wires, models, views, injector, reflector, mediators and commands) from commands, wires and mediators.

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Repository (Github)

SomaCore Framework.
SomaCore Demos.
SomaCore Plugins.

Documentation

Click here to see the documentation (asdoc).
Manual (wiki).

Diagram

Tutorials

Getting started (made with SomaCore v1)

Hello World

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Demo Flash

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Demo Flash (garbage collection monitor)

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Demo Flex (CafeTownSend)

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