yaps

Yet Another Plugin Server

YAPS is plugin based HTTP server that gets out of your way and lets you do what you need to do.

Installation

Via NPM

npm install [-g] yaps

Via Git

git clone git://github.com/brettlangdon/yaps.git
cd ./yaps
npm install

Usage

var yaps = require("yaps");
var user_auth = require("user_auth");
var user_routes = require("user_routes");
var admin_routes = require("admin_routes");
 
// create instance of yaps application
var server = new yaps({
    bind: "0.0.0.0:8000",
});
 
// register each plugin
server.registerPlugin(user_auth);
server.registerPlugin(user_routes);
server.registerPlugin(admin_routes);
 
// start the server listening at http://0.0.0.0:8000
server.start();

Writing Plugins

Plugins are meant to be a small contained representation of a portion of your application. This way you can easily package and move portions of your application around.

Example

var yaps = require("yaps");
 
var plugin = function(){
    this.addRoute("GET", "/test", this.handle_test);
    // OR
    this.GET("/test", this.handle_test);
 
    // this handler gets called for every new request regardless of route
    this.on("setup", this.request_setup);
 
    // for when there isn't a handler that responds to the request, call this
    this.on("not-found", this.not_found);
};
 
// `request` is the current request
// `server` is the current yaps instance
// `respond` is a function which must be called by each handler
plugin.prototype.handle_test = function(request, server, respond){
    if(server.some.setting >= 200){
        // this passes execution to the next handler for this route
        respond(null);
    } else{
        // this interrupts the handler chain and returns to the user
        respond.addHeader("extra_header", "used /test");
        respond(200, "Thanks for visiting /test");
    }
};
 
plugin.prototype.request_setup = function(request, server, done){
    // do some setup stuff here, like setup sessions or do auth
    done();
};
 
var server = new yaps({
    bind: "0.0.0.0:8000",
});
server.registerPlugin(plugin);
server.start();

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2013 Brett Langdon <[e-mail]> (http://www.brett.is)

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copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
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