Awesome ColdFusion – Massive Collection of Resources

• Awesome ColdFusion
  • Engines
  • Application Frameworks
  • Testing
  • Dependency Injection
  • Content Management Systems
  • NoSQL
  • REST
  • Other Libraries
  • Editors
  • Tools
  • References
  • Resources
  • Documentation

Engines

• Adobe ColdFusion
• Lucee – Free, Open Source CFML Engine, Fork of Railo

Application Frameworks

• CFWheels – An open source CFML framework inspired by Ruby on Rails.
• ColdBox – The Enterprise ColdFusion MVC Development Platform
• FarCry – FarCry Core is a web application framework that helps CFML developers build tailor-made content solutions, fast.
• FW/1 – Framework One – a lightweight, convention over configuration, MVC application framework
• ModelGlue – a CFML based, full stack, front controller based on MVC. Features include Scaffolding, ORM integration, and many others

Testing

• CFSelenium – A native Selenium RC binding for ColdFusion
• MockBox – The ColdFusion Mocking/Stubbing Framework
• MXUnit – xUnit style unit testing framework
• mxunit-watch – watch a directory for file changes (.cfc, .cfm, .xml) to trigger mxunit test suite full run, displaying results in the console
• TestBox – BDD style unit testing framework

Dependency Injection

• ColdSpring – ColdSpring makes the configuration and dependencies of your CFCs easier to manage. ColdSpring brings the power of the popular Spring framework for Java to ColdFusion.
• DI/1 – Inject One – a very lightweight, convention over configuration, dependency injection (inversion of control) framework
• Wirebox – The Enterprise Dependency Injection Framework

CMS

• CONTENS CMS – Professional Content Management
• ContentBox – A powerful modular content management engine
• FarCry CMS
• Mura
• Preside CMS – an open source CMS for the Railo language
• Slatwall – An Open Source Commerce Platform

NoSQL

• CFArango – ArangoDB client for ColdFusion
• CFCouchbase – Couchbase NoSQL and caching client wrapper for ColdFusion
• cfmongodb – MongoDB client wrapper for ColdFusion

REST

• ColdBox REST – Native REST routing and rendering capababilities
• FW/1 REST – Native REST routing and rendering capababilities
• Taffy – The REST Web Service framework for ColdFusion and Railo
• CFWheels RESTful – CFWheels encourages a conventional RESTful and resourceful style of request handling.

Other Libraries

• CacheBox – The Enterprise ColdFusion Caching Engine, Aggregator and API
• cfbackport – Back porting features contained in newer versions of ColdFusion.
• cfpayment – ColdFusion payment processing library makes plumbing e-commerce apps easy. Charging credit cards has never been easier. Inspired by Ruby’s ActiveMerchant.
• Hoth – Exception Tracking
• BugLogHQ – Exception Tracking
• iQuery – Sane script querying syntax for Adobe ColdFusion, compatible as far back as CF9. Looks and behaves much like queryExecute().
• JavaLoader – JavaLoader is a library that has been built to ease the use, development and integration of Java within ColdFusion applications.
• LogBox – The Enterprise ColdFusion Logging Library
• Moment.cfc – Moment.js inspired date/time manipulation library for CFML (not a direct port)
• Mustache.cfc – {{ mustache }} for ColdFusion
• UnderscoreCF – An UnderscoreJS port for Coldfusion. Functional programming library.
• ValidateThis – A Validation Framework for ColdFusion Objects

Editors

• CFML Package for Sublime Text 3 – CFML syntax highlighting as well as function and tag completions for Sublime Text 3
• CFML Extension for Visual Studio Code – CFML Language extension for VSCode
• CFML Language for Atom – CFML Language plugin for Atom
• Adobe ColdFusion Builder 3 – Eclipse based ColdFusion IDE from Adobe
• IntelliJ Idea – Java IDE, CFML Support available via plugin
• cfbrackets – adds support for ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML) to Brackets Code Editor
• CFEclipse – CFML Plugin for Eclipse
• TextMate – TextMate support for ColdFusion

Tools

• CommandBox – ColdFusion (CFML) CLI, Package Manager, REPL and more
• Unofficial Updater – A utility that helps install ColdFusion hotfixes

References

• CF Live – Realtime CFML testing console
• CF411 – CF411: 1,800+ Tools and Resources for CFers, (in over 150 categories) by Charlie Arehart
• CFLib – Common Function Library Project
• ColdFusion Koans – The ColdFusion Koans are a set of unit tests that the user must make pass by filling in values
• ColdFusion UI the Right Way – A list of articles demonstrating how to do UI with ColdFusion on the back end.
• Learn CF in a Week – community driven training program that teaches all the basics you need to be a ColdFusion Developer in one week.
• Try ColdFusion – Realtime interactive learning tool for CFML

Resources

• CFRepo – A repository of ColdFusion installers created by Gavin Pickin
• lucee5-heroku – Application template for deploying Lucee 5 apps to Heroku by Mike Sprague
• Vagrant LEMTL – Vagrant box with Linux, Nginx, MariaDB (or MySQL), Tomcat, and Lucee for local development with CFML by Mike Sprague

Documentation

• Adobe ColdFusion Documentation – The Official Adobe ColdFusion docs
• CFDocs – UltraFast CFML Documentation Reference.
• CFML Tags to CFScript Reference – CFML Tag to Script Conversions by Tony Junkes
• CFQuickDocs – ColdFusion documentation
• CFScript Reference – CFScript Documentation by Adam Cameron
• Lucee Wiki – Official Lucee Documentation
• Official Lucee Server Documentation – New Lucee Documentation
• Railo Documentation – Official Railo docs