Coherent.js Documentation

Welcome to the official documentation for Coherent.js, a high-performance server-side rendering framework built on pure JavaScript objects.

📚 Documentation Structure

🚀 Getting Started

• Quick Start - 5-minute setup guide
• Installation - Detailed setup instructions

🧩 Components

• Basic Components - Building with pure objects
• Advanced Components - Complex patterns
• State Management - Component state
• Styling Components - Component styling

🌊 Client-Side

• Hydration - Make components interactive
• Router - Client-side routing

🏗️ Server-Side

• SSR Guide - Server-side rendering

🗄️ Database

• Integration - Database setup
• Query Builder - SQL utilities
• Query Builder API - API reference

🌐 API Framework

• Reference - Complete API documentation
• Usage - Practical examples

☁️ Deployment

• Guide - Deployment strategies
• Integrations - Framework adapters
• Performance - Optimization techniques
• Security - Security best practices

🧪 Testing & Tooling

• Testing Guide - Testing utilities and matchers

🧩 Extended Packages

• Forms - Form building, validation, and hydration
• i18n - Translations, formatters, and locale management
• SEO - Meta tags, sitemaps, and structured data

🛠️ Editor Support

• VS Code Extension - IntelliSense and snippets for VS Code
• LSP server for any editor — ships with @coherent.js/tooling (binary: coherent-language-server)

🔧 Advanced

• Utilities - Shared rendering utilities

📖 Examples

• Performance - Performance patterns
• Full Stack - Complete applications
• Tutorial - Step-by-step guide

🔄 Migration

• From Other Frameworks - React/Vue migration
• Package Reorganization - v1.0.0-beta.2 upgrade

🎯 Quick Navigation

I want to...

• Get started quickly → Quick Start
• Build components → Basic Components
• Add interactivity → Hydration
• Manage state → State Management
• Handle routing → Router
• Work with databases → Database Integration
• Deploy to production → Deployment Guide
• Migrate from React/Vue → Migration Guide
• Build forms → Forms Guide
• Test components → Testing Guide
• Set up VS Code → VS Code Extension

📦 Package Reference

Coherent.js is a monorepo with multiple packages:

Core Packages

• @coherent.js/core - Core framework
• @coherent.js/client - Client-side utilities
• @coherent.js/api - API framework

Integration Packages

• @coherent.js/integrations - Framework integration adapters via subpath exports (/express, /fastify, /koa, /nextjs, /astro, /remix, /sveltekit)

Feature Packages

• @coherent.js/database - Database adapters
• @coherent.js/forms - Form utilities
• @coherent.js/i18n - Internationalization
• @coherent.js/seo - SEO tools
• @coherent.js/tooling - Testing utilities (/testing subpath) and Language Server (coherent-language-server binary)
• @coherent.js/state - Reactive state management
• @coherent.js/devtools - Developer tools, performance profiling, and optimization utilities (cache, code-splitting, lazy-loading via /performance subpath)

Editor Tooling

• @coherent.js/tooling - LSP server (binary: coherent-language-server) and testing utilities (/testing subpath)
• coherent-language-support - VS Code extension

🆘 Getting Help

If you need help:

1. Check the API Reference for function signatures
2. Look at Examples for practical implementations
3. Try the Quick Start guide
4. Review Performance Patterns for optimization
5. Open an issue on GitHub

📄 License

Coherent.js is MIT licensed.