I've created a simple node framework just to get the idea behind node frameworks like express.
check the code in this repo.
Simple Node framework
what
- A simple node framework with zero dependency
- An Express like framework that implements the middleware pattern
- For demonstration purpose only, not for production (maybe later)
why
To get the idea behind node frameworks specially express (the most popular node framework)
How
- Middlewares handling is being implemented using the chain of responsibility pattern, check
lib/App.js
to see the implementaion details - Extending the
http.ServerResponse
object functionality by adding some util method that make it easier to send response, it uses the builder pattern to build the response before sending it to the client, checklib/Response.js
- Adding
BodyParser
middleware that parse the request body by listening to thehttp.IncommingMessage
ondata
event and keep concatinating the incomming buffer chunks until theend
event fires, then it will call the next middleware after adding thebody
object to thereq
, so later we can access the body in our…
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