Easyrest

Easyrest is a typescript library for building RESTful APIs without repeating yourself. It takes care about all aspects that cause a headache in a RESTful API developing process.

Easyrest offers:

1. Simple entities architecture, which allows to design your api using small amount of code.
2. Opportunity to use it with any possible web framework. It doesn't have any framework specific features.
3. Opportunity to use different approaches to fetch data. For an every entity you have to provide a fetcher, mutator, and deleter functions. You decide how it will work inside.

Installation

You can install Easyrest using npm:

npm install @shevelidze/easyrest

Or using yarn:

yarn add  @shevelidze/easyrest

Basic usage

First of all you have to decide with the entities, which you will have in the api and develop fetcher for each. You can find out more about the fetchers in the Fetchers section.

Now, you can create an instance of EasyRest with entitity blueprints. Entity blueprint is a set of entitity members, methods and data manipulation functions.

import EasyRest from '@shevelidze/easyrest';

// add fetchers definitions here

const easyRest = new EasyRest.Instance({
  zoo: {
    members: {
      address: EasyRest.string(),
      workers: EasyRest.array(EasyRest.entity('worker')),
      animals: EasyRest.array(EasyRest.entity('animal')),
    },
    fetcher: zooFetcher,
  },
  worker: {
    members: {
      name: EasyRest.string(),
      birthDate: EasyRest.string(),
      salary: EasyRest.number(),
    }
    fetcher: workerFetcher,
  },
  animal: {
    members: {
      name: EasyRest.string(),
      type: EasyRest.entity('entimal_type')
    },
    fetcher: animalFetcher,
  },
  animal_type: {
    members: {
      name: EasyRest.string()
    },
    fetcher: animalTypeFetcher,
  }
});

For processing queries, EasyRest.Instance has a method processQuery. It take as arguments, query array (for request with a path /foo/bar/1, for example, it will be ['foo', 'bar', '1']), HTTP method and body object. The easiest way, use JSON for the body and than just convert it to an object, but you are free to use any other way.

When you get a request you have to call this method.

const apiResult = await easyRest.processQuery(queryArray, httpMethod, bodyObject);

If the request is invalid, this method will throw an instance of EasyRest.errors.EasyRestError, which will contain a HTTP code of the error and a message.

If not, it will return an instance of EasyRest.ApiResult, which contains a HTTP code and body for the response.

After all theese manipulations you can:

• get all objects of the entity: GET /entities/worker → [{id: "1", name: "John"... }, {id: "2", name: "Victor"...}]
• get an object by id: GET /entities/animal/12 → {id: "12", name: "Lucky", type: {id: "2", name: "Dog"}}
• get only one member of an object: GET /entities/animal/12/type → {id: 2, name: "Dog"}