@zaeny/http

Simple HTTP Server in node.js

Translate incomin http request into data strcuture like ring in clojure
Provide basic funcitonal programming utility creating http server

• Geting Started
• Usage
• API
• Related work

Getting started

npm i @zaeny/http

Usage

basic http server, with handler accept returning object {status, headers, body}

var { createServer, startServer, response } = require('@zaeny/http');

var mainHandler = (req, res) => ({ 
  status: 200, headers: {}, body: 'Hello world'
});

var server =  createServer({ 
  port: 8081, 
  handler: (req, res) => mainHandler(req, res)
});

startServer(server);

basic response with utility functions

var { createServer, startServer, response } = require('@zaeny/http');

var handler = (req, res) => response('hello world');
var server =  startServer(
  createServer({ port: 8081, handler: (req, res) => handler(req, res)})
);

// response json, if body isArray or isObject
var handler = (req, res) => {
  return {status: 200, headers: contentType('json'), body: { is_running: true }};
}

// use response
var handler = () => response({ is_running: true}, contentType('json'));

// contentType, findFile, status, headers, created, notFound, badRequest, etc..

create your own simple routing

var responseIndex = (req, res) => findFile('./index.html');
var getUser = (req, res) => response('fetch all  user');

var mainHandler = (req, res) => {
  let routes = {
    `GET /`: responseIndex,
    `GET /api/user`: getUser
  }
  let resolve = routes[`${req.method} ${req.path}`];
  if(resolve) return resolve(req, res);
  return notFound();
}

var server = server || startSever(
  createServer({ port: 8081, handler: (req, res) => mainHandler(req, res)})
);

usage with @zaeny/clojure.core

var {threadFirst, assoc} = require('@zaeny/clojure.core');

var info = (req, res) => response('hello world');

var server = threadFirst(
  { port: 8081, handler: info },
  [createServer],
  [startServer]
);

advanced routing with params :id with findRotues

var routes = () => ({
  'GET /api/audio/chapter/:id': 'handleGetAudioByChapter',
  'GET /asset/:id': 'serveAudioAssets'  
});

var resolve = {
  serveAudioAssets,
  handleGetAudioByChapter
}

var mainHandler = (req, res) => {
  let found = findRoutes(routes(), req);
  if(found && resolve[found]){
    return resolve[found](req, res);
  }
  return notFound('404');
}

var server = threadFirst(
  { port: 8081, handler: mainHandler },
  createServer,
  startServer
);

testing and debuging from repl, createRequest to test the handler

// create requst with headers 
createRequest('GET /api/users', {headers: {'Authorization': 'Basic aziz=pass'}});

await handler(createRequest('GET /api/search?query=Aziz'));

API

  createServer,
  startServer,
  stopServer,
  getServer,
  response,
  redirect,
  created,
  badRequest,
  notFound,
  status,
  header,
  headers,
  contentType,
  cors,
  isContentType,
  responseWrite,
  clientRequest,
  responseBuffer,
  responseWith,
  readFile,
  findFile,
  mimeType,
  findRoutes,
  createRequest,
  notModified,
  ext

Related work

• Composable - Collection of functions to solve programming problem

Changes

• [1.0.0] expose common api dealing with creating http server
• [1.0.1] add findRoutes utility basic routing GET /api/audio/:id, params matching and stringify body request if json
• [1.0.2] add support for async handler
• [1.0.3] add support buffer non string request
• [1.0.4] fix contentType should return not headers
• [1.0.5] add createRequest to mockup request call
• [1.0.6] add notModified and fix request parser
• [1.0.8] add fix requst.body parse if empty dont parse
• [1.0.9] add parsing request body, add improvement processing response
• [1.0.10] add parsing body response if non array or object into string.
• [1.0.11] add response(body, headers, status) basic construct instead single arguments, fix findRoutes bugs
• [1.0.12] fix bugs request.buffer and request.body is empty when content-type application/json
• [1.0.13] fix bugs replace not found on findRoutes
• [1.0.15] fix homepage repository
• [1.0.16] improve performace parseRequest, remove setTimeout, add chunk handling, better parseRequest
• [1.0.17] fix buffer request, remove request method parser for non GET
• [1.0.18] add clientError handler, improve parsing by urlCache set and get
• [1.0.20] fix internal server error url cache not defined (bugs)
• [1.0.23] update fix error bugs urlCache parse unable to parse