Principles

The design process for Nitro components adheres to a strict framework of principles.

Transparency

A programmer needs to understand his code. We avoid Domain Specific Languages and 'magic' utilities that hide complexity.

Simplicity

Simple code is (often) efficient and efficient code is beautiful. Simplicity promotes transparency. We optimize for real world applications, not 'hello world' examples.

Standards compliance

There is no merit in reinventing the wheel. Nitro uses standard technolofies and protocols: HTTP, HTML5, XML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, JSON-Template, Atom, Microformats. Standards compliance promotes transparency (the code is easier to understand) and lowers the barrier of entry for newcomers.