0.0.11 • Published 12 years ago
envented v0.0.11
#envented ##Evented node.js server framework ##Install
$ npm install envented
##Run tests
$ npm test
or
$ make test
##Why Node.js has a lot of events. The process object has events. HTTP servers have events. Streams have events. Higher-level modules have events. However, you can't really write a web app with events. Node http servers emit events, but they don't emit events based on the type of request. For example
var server = http.createServer();
server.on('request', function(req, res){
// do stuff
});
Do you do that? Probably not, you probably just do this:
var server = http.createServer(function(req, res){
// do stuff
});
Now, those two methods of creating a server are the same. Which means building an actual server out of one or the other is also the same.
##Get to the point
envented lets you do this:
var envented = require('envented');
var server = envented.Server() // this accepts an onRequest callback
server.use(server.router); // server is a connect.Server instance. YOU MUST USE THE ROUTER
server.on('get::/', function(req, res){
res.end("Hi");
});
server.on('post::/form', function(req, res){
// handle post data
});
The event namespacing is courtesy of EventEmitter2. All your favorite connect middleware is inside of envented.