Crixalis

Lightweight web framework for node.js

Features

• Small, documented and easily extendable core
• Advanced routing system (content type, method, host) with RegExp support and placeholders
• Compression support (gzip, deflate)
• Static file serving support (with ETag, Last-Modified, Expires and LRU-cache)

Synopsis

General usage

var Crixalis = require('crixalis');

Crixalis

	/* Load plugins */
	.plugin('shortcuts')
	.plugin('access', { format: '%7T %-4m %s %9B %-15h %U%q' })

	/* Add route with placeholder */
	.get('/hello/:name', function () {
		/* Prepare data for response */
		this.stash.json = {
			message: 'Hello, ' + this.params.name + '!'
		};

		/* Render response */
		this.render();
	})

	/* Add another route for GET and HEAD methods */
	.route('/info', { methods: ['GET', 'HEAD'] }, function () {
		var that = this;

		require('fs').readFile('./readme.md', function (error, result) {
			if (error) {
				/* Handle error */
				that.error(error);
			} else {
				that.body = result;
				that.render();
			}
		});
	})

	/* Catch everything else */
	.route('*', function () {
		this.redirect('/hello/World');
	})

	/* Start server on port 8080 */
	.start('http', 8080);

Plugins

Available core plugins

• access Access log (with configurable CLF support)
• compression Compress response using gzip or deflate compression (also works with static plugin)
• request Thin wrapper around http.request and https.request
• shortcuts Route declaration helpers, .get(), .post(), etc.
• static Serve static files

Static server

Crixalis comes with script for serving static files

	# Start web server on port `8080` and serve files from current folder
	crixalis

	# Start web server on port `3000` and serve files from `~/www/`
	crixalis --port 3000 --path ~/www/

Copyright and License

Copyright 2012-2016 Alexander Nazarov. All rights reserved.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.