fire-web

RESTful API and Web Development Expressions for fire.js and express.js

How to use

Install fire.js globally and run the following JSON file.

// app.fjson
{
	"name": "app",
	"json": {
		"@Web.Server.Boot": null
	}
}

$ fire app.fjson

This will initialize a fire.js Runtime and run a express.js server in port 3500(for both development and test environments). If you want it to run in port 80(production) you need to run it as superuser and set the environment variable NODE_ENV=production.

Web Expressions

Web Expressions are regular fire.js expressions especially decorated to be invoked using HTTP. To publish your fire.js expression as web expressions you just need to add a route attribute:

Example:

{
	"Web.Endpoint": "GET /hello",
	"name": "basicService.hello",
	"json": "Hello World"
}

If some http client invokes /hello it will get the following response:

{"response": "Hello World"}

Protocols

Protocols defines the shape of the API responses, by default Web.Protocols.Response is used.

The protocol can be changed globally if you set defaultResponseProtocol in the configurations.

Example:

{
	"modules": ["fire-web"],
	"environments": {
		"development": {
			"fire-web": {
				"port": 3503,
				"defaultResponseProtocol": "customProtocols.CustomProtocol"
			}
		}
	}
}

Some operation may require a custom protocol, using the responseProtocol attribute each expression can define it's own custom protocol.

Example:

{
	"Web.Endpoint": "GET /hello",
	"Web.Response.Protocol": "customProtocols.CustomOverride",
	"name": "useOverride.hello",
	"json": "Hello World"
}

Contributors

• Johan (author). Email: [email protected]

Cloning the Repository

git clone https://github.com/firejs/fire-web.git

Tests

make run-tests

MIT License

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