Write fully featured http services without the bloat. Compatible with Express Middleware.

router-middleware

Compatible with Express Middleware

with cookie-parser

const rm = require("router-middleware");
const app = rm();
const cookieParser = require("cookie-parser");

app.use(cookieParser()); // cookies now on req.cookies

Full Example

const http = require("http");
const rm = require("router-middleware");
const app = rm();
const server = http.createServer(app);

app.post("/user/:userId/email", function (req, res, next) {
  console.log("Query:", req.query);
  // { authToken: '1234' }
  console.log("Params:", req.params);
  // { userId: 'abc123' }
  console.log("Body:", req.body);
  return res.end(`user id was: ${req.params.userId}\n`);
});

server.listen(5150);

> curl -X POST -d '{"message" : "Hello World!"}' "http://localhost:5150/user/abc123/email?authToken=1234"

Features

• Chainable middleware
• familiar req.params and req.query are there
• identical routing to what you are used to

Any Fileserver

• Ecstatic
• express.static
• fs

How to handle POST (this autodetects json or form querystring)

var http = require("http");
var router = require("router-middleware");
var app = router();
var server = http.createServer(app);

app.post("/user/email", function (req, res, next) {
  // Now req.body will be populated with the body posted.
  // req.body.username == 'Manny';
  // req.body.species == 'cat';
});

server.listen(5150);

How to do a simple GET Fall-Through

var http = require("http");
var router = require("router-middleware");
var ecstatic = require("ecstatic")({ root: __dirname });
var app = router();
app.fileserver(ecstatic);
var server = http.createServer(app);

app.get("/admin", function (req, res, next) {
  if (some_condition) {
    next(); // will now pass through to the fileserver
    // i.e. /admin/index.html or /admin.html
  } else {
    res.writeHead(403);
    res.write("Denied, sorry");
    res.end();
  }
});
server.listen(5150);

Example

var http = require("http");
var router = require("router-middleware");
var app = router();
var server = http.createServer(app);

app.get("/user/:username", function (req, res, next) {
  res.writeHead(200);
  res.end("Hello " + req.params.username + "!");
});

server.listen(5150);

// GET /user/joe
// Hello joe!

With Fileserver Ecstatic

var http = require("http");
var router = require("router-middleware");
var app = router();
var ecstatic = require("ecstatic")({ root: __dirname });
var server = http.createServer(app);

app.fileserver(ecstatic);

// any custom routes you set will have precedence
// all other GET requests falls-through to the fileserver

With Fileserver Express

var http = require("http");
var router = require("router-middleware");
var app = router();
var express = require("express");
var server = http.createServer(app);

app.fileserver(express.static("mydirectory"));

// any custom routes you set will have precedence
// all other GET requests falls-through to the fileserver

Main Methods

.[method] (get, post, ... etc)

Attach a handler to any HTTP Method from the full method verb list Handler has the signature function(req, res, next).

.get

app.get("/user/email", function (req, res, next) {
  res.write("[email protected]");
  res.end();
});

.post

This module comes with a POST body consumer that places the POST body on the req.body for you.

// suppose we send JSON payload via POST
// { username: 'Manny', species: 'cat' }

app.post("/user/email", function (req, res, next) {
  // req.body will be the JSON parsed object that is sent on the post
  // req.body.username == 'Manny';
  // req.body.species == 'cat';
});

.use

Add a use handler that is placed in front of every call.

app.use(logger);
app.use(parser);

.fileserver(yourFileServer)

Attach any fileserver. Any custom routes you set will have precedence. All other unmatched GET requests falls-through to the fileserver.

Example

app.fileserver(require("ecstatic")({ root: __dirname + "/web" }));

Accessory methods

.set

app.set("<key>", "<value>"); // specify the views directory

License

The MIT License (MIT) Copyright (c) 2024 David Wee - [email protected]

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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