diamondjs v0.1.1

About

Diamond JS is Express inspired framework, made for learning purposes.

Installation

npm install diamondjs

Basic example

const Diamond = require('diamondjs');

const server = new Diamond();

server.get('/', (req, res) => {
  res.write('Hello world!');
});

server.start(8080);

Docs

Module initialization

const Diamond = require('diamondjs');

const server = new Diamond();

Starting server

const port = 8080;
server.start(port);

Middleware

Custom

server.use((req, res, next) => {
  console.log('Middleware 1 called');
  next();
});

Modules

const morgan = require('morgan');
server.use(morgan('dev'));

Routing

Supported methods are POST GET PUT PATCH DELETE

Basic

server.route('GET', '/news', (req, res) => {
  res.write('Hello news!');
});

server.route('POST', ...);
server.route('PUT', ...);
server.route('PATCH', ...);
server.route('DELETE', ...);

Basic short

server.get('/admin', (req, res) => {
  res.write('Hello admin!');
});

server.post(...);
server.put(...);
server.patch(...);
server.delete(...);

Controller route

app.js

// Set controllers directory (optional, default is controllers)
// server.setControllersDir('example/controllers');

server.route('GET', '/', 'MainController@index');
server.route('GET', '/home', 'MainController@home');

controllers/MainController.js

exports.index = (req, res) => {
  res.write('Index');
};

exports.home = (req, res) => {
  res.write('Home');
};

View engine

Only pug view engine is supported for now.

Setup

// Set controllers directory (optional, default is views)
// server.setViewsDir('example/views');

server.useViewEngine('pug');

Render

// This will render views/news.pug

server.route('GET', '/news', (req, res) => {
  res.render('news');
});