koa-sub-domain

Simple and lightweight Koa middleware to handle multilevel and wildcard subdomains

Install

npm install koa-sub-domain

Usage

var koa = require('koa');
var app = koa();
var subdomain = require('koa-sub-domain');

app.use(subdomain('sub',function *(next){
  this.body = 'Hey, you got it :-)';
}));
app.listen(3000);

Advantage usage

In the case you are running multiple domains on this server, you can add FQDN instead of only sub. Also you may user Koa-router routes same as generator functions as target of a domain.

app.use(subdomain('sub.example.com', exampleRoute)); // not exampleRoute.routes() !!!
app.use(subdomain('sub.foobar.com', function*(next){...}));

Also wildcards for the last sub domain are handled same as deeper domains below the *

app.use(subdomain('*.example.com',wildcardRoute));

So intranet.management.example.com is matched by *.example.com

Of cause you can handle multilevel subdomains in chain:

app.use(subdomain('api', router));
app.use(subdomain('v1.api', router));
app.use(subdomain('*.v1.api', router));

Note: The order of chaining is important !

Tipps for development

You need a DNS server or you can add all the FQDNs into your /etc/hosts (if you are using Linux or Mac OS X). On Windows 7 and 8, the hosts file path is %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc.

172.0.0.1  example.com
172.0.0.1  sub.example.com
172.0.0.1  sub.foo.bar.example.com
172.0.0.1  wildcard.sub.foo.bar.example.com

An other way would be to use dnsmasq. You need simple one line in the dnsmasq.conf:

address=/.example.com/192.168.0.1

Note: the . before example.com - this means all requests to sub-domains are landing on 192.168.0.1.

Performance

You can optimize performance by knowing the steps Koa-sub-domain is resolving:

1. sub === this.hostname
2. this.subdomain[0] === sub
3. typeof this.subdomain[1] === 'string' // or wildcard => sub sub domain ?

That means FQDNs should be resolved the fastest.

License

MIT

###Notes TODO: checking out whether yield has to be replaced by return because of there is no more following match !