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Welcome to the last day of (ForgeBox) Christmas! I hope you have enjoyed this crash course in these different modules. The ForgeBox ecosystem is vast and wonderful. Next time you have a need, open up https://www.forgebox.io and check to see what the community has already contributed. Let's end today with an introduction to CFFractal, an API marshalling module.

Let's tackle a powerful module today. It will take quite a bit of configuration, but hopefully you will see the usefulness of this module by the end of this post. Meet CommandBox Migrations, a tool for managing and running your database migrations with CommandBox.

Today's featured module is a TestBox module that introduces snapshot testing capabilities to TestBox. If you've avoided testing your legacy applications, come see how TestBox Snapshots can get you started.

I love modules that help me do the right thing in my code, especially when I often forget to do something. Today's module is very straight-forward — verify-csrf-interceptor — an interceptor that will automatically check for CSRF tokens for all non-GET requests to help protect against cross-site request forgery.

A short one but a good one today. Let's see how we can automate tasks with CommandBox Githooks.

Learn about a cross-engine. expressive, and extendible functional programming library today — cfcollection.

In the CFML scene, there seems to be two names when it comes to data persistance plain ole' cfquery and ORM — not much inbetween. Our module highlight today is out to change that.

Meet qb.

Today let's look at a quick, fun module today. It will make your exception experience in development just a little bit nicer. It's called whoops.

As a holiday song reminds us, we should be "...making a list, checking it twice." Client-side validation is the first check. Server-side validation is the second. And an excellent module to help us with server-side validation is cbvalidation.

Modules don't have to be big. In fact, the Unix philosophy says to do one thing and do it well. While modules on ForgeBox run the gamut of [d]oing one thing](https://www.forgebox.io/view/orm-reload-interceptor) and full blown frameworks, today we will look at one of the utility libraries on ForgeBox — a string manipulation library called str.