Installation

$ npm install --save pure-http

Usage

Basic server:

const pureHttp = require('pure-http');

const app = pureHttp();

app.get('/', (req, res) => {
  res.send('Hello world');
});

app.listen(3000);

Existing server:

const http = require('http');
const pureHttp = require('pure-http');

const server = http.createServer();

const app = pureHttp({ server });

app.listen(3000);

Secure server:

const https = require('https');
const pureHttp = require('pure-http');

const server = https.createServer({
  key: ...,
  cert: ...,
});

const app = pureHttp({ server });

app.listen(3000);

Application Options:

• server: Allows to optionally override the HTTP server instance to be used.

  Default: undefined.

• onError: A handler when an error is thrown (Deprecated: It has been removed from 3.0.0).

  Default: ((error, req, res) => res.send(error)).

• onNotFound: A handler when no route definitions were matched (Deprecated: It has been removed from 3.0.0).

  Default: ((req, res) => res.send("Cannot " + req.method + " " + req.url)).

• views: An object to configuration render function.

  Default: undefined.

  • dir: A directory for the application's views.

  • ext: The default engine extension to use when omitted.

  • engine: Registers the given template engine.

• Router Options:

  • prefix: Allow append the path before each route.

    Default: undefined.

Router

const { Router } = require('pure-http');

const router = Router();

router.get('/', (req, res) => {
  res.send('Hello world');
});

/* ... */

const pureHttp = require('pure-http');

const app = pureHttp();

app.use('/api', router);

app.listen(3000);

API References

You can read more at API.md.

Benchmarks

Please remember that your application code is most likely the slowest part of your application! Switching from Express to pure-http will (likely) not guarantee the same performance gains.

• Machine: Ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-sgp1-01, x86-64, Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v4 @ 2.20GHz, 16GB RAM.
• Node: v12.18.4
• Run: Tue, 16 Mar 2021 16:09:01

| Framework | Version | Requests/Sec | Latency | | -------------------------- | ---------: | :----------: | ----------: | | pure-http (with cache) | latest | ~ 6,349 | 15.11ms | | pure-http | latest | ~ 6,255 | 15.39ms | | tinyhttp | 1.2.17 | ~ 4,942 | 19.44ms | | fastify | 3.14.0 | ~ 3,310 | 29.10ms | | express | 4.17.1 | ~ 2,188 | 43.87ms |

• Machine: Ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-sgp1-01, x86-64, Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v4 @ 2.20GHz, 16GB RAM.
• Node: v12.18.4
• Run: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 21:07:21

| Framework | Version | Requests/Sec | Latency | | -------------------------- | --------: | :----------: | ----------: | | pure-http (with cache) | 2.x.x | ~ 8,792 | 10.92ms | | pure-http | 2.x.x | ~ 8,633 | 11.12ms | | polka | 0.5.2 | ~ 7,364 | 13.03ms | | express | 4.17.1 | ~ 3,588 | 26.86ms | | fastify | 3.8.0 | ~ 2,702 | 35.54ms |

See more: BENCHMARKS

License

The code in this project is released under the MIT License.