WebPoints is a web framework build on top of ExpressJS for node. It is oriented on RESTful service development with JSON serialization. NOTE: It is not a template engine consolidation library.

var Application = require('webpoints').Application, app = new Application();

app.endpoints['/'] = {
  method: 'get',
  handler: function(callback) { callback('Hello, world!'); }
};

app.endpoints['/sum'] = {
  method: 'get',
  serialize: true,
  params: {x: {deserialize: true}, y: {deserialize: true, 'default': 0}},
  handler: function(x, y, callback) { callback(x + y); }
};

app.endpoints['files'] = process.env['HTMLPAGES'];

app.run(3000);

You can use WebPoints with your existing Express application

var express = require('express'), WebPoints = require('webpoints').Application;
var app = express(), points = new WebPoints();

app.get('/', function(req, res){
  res.send('Hello World');
});

points.operations['/sum'] = {
  method: 'get',
  serialize: true,
  params: {x: {deserialize: true}, y: {deserialize: true, 'default': 0}},
  handler: function(x, y, callback) { callback(x + y); }
};

points.exportTo(app);

app.listen(3000);

Installation

$ npm install webpoints

Features

• Enables to describe RESTful service in most human readable declarative manner;
• Automatic JSON deserialization of parameters passed through HTTP body or URL;
• JSON deserialization/serialization of parameters can be replaced with custom formatter. For example, you can add XML deserializer for REST operation;
• Built-in JSON Schema validation of input arguments passed from network;
• Supports ExpressJS middleware and engine;
• Extensible declarative model;
• Postconditions and preconditions for endpoints;
• Long-running tasks support (with HTTP-202 status and task monitors).

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2012 Sakno Roman

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