http-micro

Micro-framework on top of node's http module

app.use((ctx) => {
    ctx.res.end("Hello world!");
    return Promise.resolve();
});

Installation: npm install http-micro

Highlights

• Written in and works with Typescipt.
• Koa-like contexts that can be generically typed in TS.
• Promises for all middleware.
• In-built body-parsing - but only ever parse the body if you need it, providing better security and performance.
• In-built graceful server shutdown with proper keep-alive handling.
• No monkey-patching Node's http module or any other module.
• Provides middleware chaining and composition over core http module.
• Awaitable next middlewares. So, parent middleware has complete control over the execution of the next middleware.
• Just use async/await and wrap in try-catch for error handling. No special quirks or ugly special-case callbacks like Express.
• High performance (Combined with bluebird promises, performance is on par with node's raw http module).
• Small code-base.

Example

const micro = require("http-micro");
const url = require("url");
 
let app = new micro.App();
// When using Typescript, context can be 
// generically typed to one that implements
// the IContext interface.
//
// `let app = new micro.Application<MyContext>(
//          (app, req, res) => new MyContext());`
//
// Raw node req, and res untouched.
// Convenience functions are also provided, used
// later in the example.
 
app.use(async (ctx, next) => {
    if (url.parse(ctx.req.url)
        .pathname == "/async") {
        ctx.res.end("Hello world from async!");
    } else {
        await next();
    }
});
 
app.use(async (ctx, next) => {
    await next();
})
 
app.use(async (ctx, next) => {
    if (url.parse(ctx.req.url)
        .pathname == "/async-await") {
        await Promise.resolve();
        await Promise.resolve();
        ctx.res.end("Hello world from awaited async!");
    } else {
        await next();
    }
});
 
let router = new micro.Router();
// When using Typescript, can again be generic,
// `let router = new Router<MyContext>();`
 
router.get("/hello", (ctx) => {
    ctx.sendText("Hello route!");
    return Promise.resolve();
});
 
router.get("/hello-string", async (ctx) => {
    ctx.sendText("Hello string!");
});
 
router.get("/hello-object", (ctx) => {
    ctx.sendAsJson({ message: "Hello world!" });
    return Promise.resolve();
});
 
let router1 = new micro.Router();
 
router1.get("/hello", (ctx) => {
    ctx.sendText("chain 1: hello!");
    return Promise.resolve();
});
 
let router2 = new micro.Router();
 
router2.get("/hello", (ctx) => {
    ctx.res.end("chain 2: hello!");
    return Promise.resolve();
});
 
router.use("/r1", router1);
router.use("/r2", router2);
 
app.use(router);
 
app.listen(8000, "localhost", () => {
    console.log("listening");
});