A collection of useful recipes for the ColdBox Framework.

We have a special module just for helping you monitor and debug ColdBox applications. To install, fire up CommandBox and install it as a dependency in your application:

install cbdebugger --saveDev

Remember that this module is for development so use the --saveDev flag. This will install the ColdBox Debugger module for you, which will attach a debugger to the end of the request and give you lots of flexibility. Please read the instructions here in order to spice it up as you see fit: https://github.com/ColdBox/cbox-debugger

We have a Github organization called coldbox-templates that has a great collection of application startup templates. You can collaborate with the existing ones or send us new ones to add.

CommandBox Integration

The coldbox create app command has integration to our application templates via the skeleton argument. This can be the name of each of the templates in our repositories or you can use the following alternatives:

• Name of template in our organization: advanced,simple,super-simple,rest, rest-hmvc, vuejs, etc

• A name of a ForgeBox entry: cbtemplate-advanced-script,cbtemplate-simple

• A Github shortcut: github-username/repo

• An HTTP/S URL to a zip file containing a template: http://myapptemplates.com/template.zip

• A folder containing a template: /opt/shared/templates/my-template

• A zip file containing the template: /opt/shared/templates/my-template.zip

Introduction

If you use any of the view partial caching mechanisms in Coldbox either through setView() orrenderView() you might be asking yourself:

Is there an easy, programmatic way to remove a specific element from the view cache?

The answer is, of course! All view and event caching occurs in a cache provider called template and you can retrieve it like so from your handlers, layouts, views, plugins and interceptors:

var cache = cachebox.getCache("template");

You can also use the WireBox injection DSL

property name="cache" inject="cachebox:template">

Clearing methods

There are a few methods that will help you clear views:

• clearView(viewSnippet) - Clear views with a snippet

• clearAllViews(async) - Clear all views

• clearViewMulti(viewSnippets) - Clear multiple view snippets with a list or array of snippets

getCache( "template" ).clearView('home');

Very easy! Just send in what you need and it will be purged.