amanej/direction

NodeJS based router

Direction

A node based router - in progress

Demo

Usage

• Define routes

    DirectionRoutes = [
        {
            name: "god-dag",
            method: "GET",
            handler: (req,res) => {
                let message = JSON.stringify({"message":"Hei, ha en god dag!"});
                res.end(message);
            }
        },
        {
            name: "bootstrap",
            method: "GET",
            handler: (req,res) => {
                let file = fs.readFileSync("./test/helpers/bootstrap.html","utf-8");
                res.end(file);
            }
        }
    ]

Routes are expected to be:

    name - Route - String
    method - HTTP Method - String
    handler - Response function - Function

• Init Router

    const DirectionRouter = new Direction(DirectionRoutes);

• Pass to server

    const server = http.createServer((req,res) => {
        DirectionRouter.handleRequests(req,res)
    });    

Features

• Basic json routes
• Serve HTML

Todo

• Serve HTML
• Request flow works with external data sources
• Serve static file
• Serve static files folder
• Process post request
• Let user define route by name and method
• Handle file uploads
• Pass headers to route function
• Handle parameters well

Battle test

• Build basic homepage with router
• Build webapp with router