Ey

Ey is an ergonomic and fast server+router, built on uWebSockets (for now). It has a simple interface embracing todays JS features.

Getting Started

import ey from 'ey'

const app = ey()

app.get('/', r => r.end('Hello World'))

const { port } = await app.listen(process.env.PORT)

The request

The request object contains all relavant data and methods to handle incoming requests and methods to respond as desired.

app.get(r => {
    r // is the request object
})

Incoming

.method

The HTTP verb of the request.

.url

Contains the actual url sent by the client

.pathname

Contains the relative url for the specific handler

.headers

An object containing headers. If multiple headers are found the value will be a comma separated list of values.

.query

A URLSearchParams object for the query string. This is a getter so the URLSearchParams object will be created lazily.

.params

An object of the matched routing params like. /authors/:author/books/:book = { author: 'Murray', book: 'Ethics of Liberty' }

.body() -> Promise

A function which reads the incoming body and transforms it to an optional type text or json. If no type is specificed a Buffer will be returned.

r.cookie(name) -> Object

Returns an object representing the cookie

Outgoing

.status(status)

.header(name, value) | r.header({ name: value })

.end(body)

.tryEnd(body)

.write()

.cork()

.offset()

.status()

.writable()

.close()

.cookie(name, { ... })

Middleware

Implement middleware with all. Ey forwards the request to the next handler, unless a response has begun.

app.all((r, next) => {
  r.headers.authorization
    ? r.token = r.headers.authorization.split(' ')[1]
    : r.statusEnd(401) // request ends here
})

app.all(r => {
    r.token
})

Optimizations

There are various ways to optimize your routes by being more specific in their definition.

Pre-specified request headers

You can specify which headers a route will use, up front, to prevent reading and loading unnecessary headers. Be aware that this is not possible for route handlers that come after other async handlers.

const app = ey({ headers: ['content-type'] })

app.get('/login', { headers: ['authorization'] }, r => {
  r.headers['content-type'] // string
  r.headers['authorization'] // string
  r.headers['accept'] // undefined    
})

Error handling

Any middleware that accepts 2 arguments will be registrered as an error handler and receive the error as the first argument, and the request object as the second. This will allow you to log errors and reply accordingly. If no error handler makes a response the default error handler will reply with 500 Internal Server Error and call console.error.

app.all((error, r) => {
  connected = true
  res.end(await ...)
})

Route matching

Routes are matched according to the order in which they are defined. This is important to support middleware with less specific route matching.

Exact match

hej	med	yo
/user	will only match requests to the url /user

Wildcard (not implemented yet)

/user* All requests that begins with /user /user/* All requests that begins with /user/ */user All requests that ends with /user

Parameters

/user

All requests with one path segment, setting r.params = { user }

/:user/posts/:post

All requests with 3 segments that has posts in the middle, setting r.params = { user, post }

Regex

Examples

Get

Get with Params

// GET /u25
app.get('/:id', r => 
  r.params.id // The actual id value
)

Get query params

// GET /?sort=-price
app.get(r => {
  req.query.sort // -price
})

Getting posted JSON

// POST /user { name: 'Murray' }
app.post('/user', async r => {
  const body = await r.body('json')
      , user = await sql`insert into users ${ sql(body) }`
      
  r.json(user, 201) // r.json sets Content-Type: application/json header
})

Send file

app.get('/favicon.ico', r => r.file('/public/favicon.ico'))

Serve files

app.all('/node_modules', r.files('/node_modules'))

File upload

// POST /file data
app.post('/file', async r => {
  await new Promise((resolve, reject) =>
    r.readable.pipe(fs.createWriteStream('...'))
     .on('finish', resolve)
     .on('error', reject)
  )
  r.end('Done')
})

Redirect

// GET /old-link
app.get('/old-link', async r => {
  r.statusEnd(302, { location: '/new-link' })
})

Auth

app.all(r => {
  const session = await sql`select * from sessions where key = ${ 
    r.headers.authorization.split(' ')[0] 
  }`  
})

The request object

Routing

Ey simplifies the express routing model, by removing request and next.

WebSockets