quarkhttp

Table of Contents

• About
• Install
• Features
• Create an app

About

This is a minimalistic Web framework for Node.js. It helps you create RESTful APIs.

The idea is to have 0 dependencies while still have all the functionality you would expect from bigger frameworks like Express, Koa, Fastify etc with just a fraction of the footprint.

Install

npm install quarkhttp

Features

• Create routes supporting GET, POST, PUT, DELETE HTTP Verbs. There are convenience methods for this:

  app.get('<path>', (req, res) => {})
  app.post('<path>', (req, res) => {})
  app.put('<path>', (req, res) => {})
  app.delete('<path>', (req, res) => {})

• Reads posted body to either Text or JSON. Use method bodyParse(method) to change how the body is parsed. Valid input values json or text.

• Has middleware that you can run before handling the actual request. Can be used for Authentication for example.

  app.get('/products', (req, res, next) => {
    if (req.headers['authorization'] === 'abc123') {
      next();
    } else {
      res.statusCode = 401;
      res.send('Not allowed')
    }
  })

• Handles route parameters and query parameters

  Router parameters

  app.get('/products/:id', (req, res) => {
    console.log(req.params) // for route /products/1 { id: "1" }
  })

  Query parameters

  app.get('/products/', (req, res) => {
    console.log(req.query) // for route /products?page=1&pageSize=20 { page: "1", pageSize: "20"}
  })

Create an app

const quark = require('quarkhttp');
 
const app = quark();
 
// ROUTE PARAMETERS
app.get("/products/:id", (req, res) => {
  console.log("query params", req.query);
  console.log('req.params', req.params);
  res.send("product id");
});
 
app.get('/products', (req, res) => {
  console.log('query params', req.query)
  res.send('text');
})
 
// POST
app.post('/products', (req,res) => {
  console.info('body', req.body)
  res.json(req.body);
})
 
// PUT
app.put('/products', (req,res) => {
  console.info('body', req.body)
  res.json(req.body);
})
 
// MIDDLEWARE
app.get('/orders', (req, res, next) => {
  if (req.headers['authorization'] === 'abc123') {
    console.log('next', next)
    next()
  } else {
    res.statusCode = 401;
    res.send('Not allowed')
  }
}, (req, res) => {
  res.send('Protected route');
})
 
// Starts listening to requests
app.listen(3000, () => {
  console.log('Server running on 3000');
})