restfun

To run minimal and fast rest api on the edges.

Install

pnpm i restfun
bun add restfun

Usage

Node.js

Hello word with restfun:

import restfun from 'restfun'

const server = restfun()

server.get('/', (req, res) => {
  res.html('Hello world')
})

server.listen(3001)

APIs

restfun

Syntax

restfun()
restfun(Object options)

Parameters

options optional

• cors: object, headers for cors, default to {}
• noDelay: bolean, default to true
• keepAlive: bolean, default to false
• maxHeaderSize: number, default to 16384
• headersTimeout: number, default to 60000
• requestTimeout: number, default to 300000

Regarding cors, by default, restfun enalbe CORS by auto adding the following headers:

Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: authorization, token, x-token, apikey, x-api-key

Developer can modify, or add more via cors options, for example:

import restfun from 'restfun'

export const server = restfun({
  cors: {
    'Access-Control-Allow-Origin': 'https://myownfrontend.com', // overwrite
    'Access-Control-Allow-Credentials': 'true'
  }
})

For other options, refer this link.

Return

Return a restfun instance with the following methods:

• listen(port, host, callback): start listening at the specified port
• get(pattern, handler): routes GET request to the specified pattern
• post(pattern, handler): routes POST request to the specified pattern
• put(pattern, handler): routes PUT request to the specified pattern
• delete(pattern, handler): routes DELETE request to the specified pattern
• route(METHOD, pattern, handler: another way to add router using any HTTP methods
• use(handler): insert a handler in the middle of request/response processing, before the router handlers
• notFound(handler): add handler to deal with 404 error
• onError(handler): add handler to deal with other errors

patterns

This lib only support simple pattern, e.g,:

• /:category/:slug
• /profile/:userid/
• /accounts/:userid/settings
• /search
• /

handler

A function that accepts an IncomingMessage (a.k.a req) and a ServerResponse (a.k.a res).

Along with what are inherited from their prototype, restfun adds the following properties and methods to req/res:

• req.ip
• req.params
• req.query
• req.body
• req.getHeader()
• res.type()
• res.status()
• res.json()
• res.html()
• res.send()

Benchmark

autocannon -c 100 -w 4 -d 20 http://0.0.0.0:3001

• Intel® Core™ i7-10510U CPU @ 1.80GHz × 8
• RAM DDR4 2667 MT/s 16GB
• Node.js v18.12.1 on Debian 11.6

Test

git clone https://github.com/ndaidong/restfun.git
cd restfun
pnpm i
pnpm test

License

The MIT License (MIT)