zanea/chicken-express

A FastCGI web framework in Chicken Scheme, based on the API of Express for Node.js.

chicken-express's Issues

Build a decent example

I should build a modern looking, and actually useful example for demonstrating chicken-express. For example I wanted to use Bootstrap for the included example but didn't want to clutter up the repository, so I should create a Chicken-express-example repository.

Refactor middleware/route handling

Right now middleware and regular routes are thrown into a single bag and it is messy to handle. I should refactor this code to build regular routes as a type of middleware, and then only deal with the underlying middleware to simplify things.

Revisit using local modules

Need to look at how other Chicken scheme libraries handle using local modules. Right now I am include-ing the module and then import-ing it but I would like to make this a single step.

Support alternative webservers

Right now chicken-express uses the fastcgi egg, which I connect to a local nginx instance. This is for my convenience but there isn't a particular reason for it, so it would be nice to extract that out and allow a full scheme web server to sit in its place (while of course leaving the same end-user API).

Handle JSON as POST body

The body-parser middleware should recognize when it is being sent JSON in the body of a request and parse that instead of treating the data as begin form encoded.

This coincides with the need for robust handling of "Accept" headers and returning a correct "Content-type" to the browser.

Consider changing the license

Consider changing the license from GPL to either BSD or MIT.

Don't remember why I chose the GPL to begin with.