BASE -- Boilerplate API Server Environment

Router

Install

npm i @cababunga/router

Use

HTTP request router and middleware stacker.

Creating router is easy.

const {router} = require("@cababunga/router");
const app = router();

Router has the following methods:

add(methods, route, ...handlers)

methods

This can be the name os a single HTTP method, like "GET" or an array of method names ["GET", "POST"]. Special string "*" means that any method is allowed. If "GET" is allowed, then "HEAD" will be allowed automatically.

route

Route is a path prefix that needs to be matched with the url from request. If segment of route is in form :<word>, this segment won't be matched with the part of the url, instead this part of the url will be available in the handler as request.param[<word>].

handlers

The rest of the parameters are middleware and a handler. The difference between middleware and handler is that middleware doesn't call response.end(). If route only has associated middleware and no final handler, this middleware will be executed for each path for which this route is a prefix.

CORS middleware

Middleware for adding CORS headers.

cors(options)

The following options are recognized:

methods

Will be added as the value for the Access-Control-Allow-Methods header.

origin

Will be added as the value for the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header. If omitted, req.headers["origin"] will be used.

headers

Will be added as the value for the Access-Control-Allow-Headers header.

credentials

Will be added as the value for the Access-Control-Allow-Credentials header.

const cors = require("@cababunga/router/cors");
cors({methods: "GET, POST", headers: "content-type"});

Examples

const http = require("http");
const router = require("@cababunga/router");
const cors = require("@cababunga/router/cors");
const accesslog = require("@cababunga/accesslog");

const response = (res, data, code) => {
    if (data === undefined)
        res.writeHead(code || 204).end();
    else
        res.writeHead(code || 200, {"Content-Type": "application/json"}).end(JSON.stringify(data));
};

const errorResponse = (res, code, message) =>
    res.writeHead(code, {"Content-Type": "application/json"})
        .end(JSON.stringify({err: true, msg: message}));

// Middleware for authentication
const authenticate = async (req, res) => {
    const sessionId = req.headers["x-session-id"];
    const session = await getSession(sessionId);
    if (!session)
        return errorResponse(res, 401, "Please login");
    req.session = session;
};

const getSession = async sessionId => { /* await getSession(sessionId) */ return Promise.resolve(1); };
const listAdd = async (req, res) => { /* await addToList(await req.json()); */ response(res, {ok: true}); };
const listRemove = async (req, res) => { /* await removeFromList(); */ response(res); };

const app = router();
app.all("/", cors({methods: "GET, POST, PATCH, DELETE", headers: "x-session-id, content-type"}));
app.all("/", accesslog(console.log, {skip: "/health-check"}));

app.add("POST", "/api/1/list", authenticate, listAdd);
app.add("DELETE", "/api/1/list/:id", authenticate, listRemove);
app.error((err, req, res) => (res, err) => errorResponse(res, 500, err.message));

http.createServer(app).listen(1234);;