Presentation

Golem is a tool that creates development servers from a config file. Basically, you can create a static files server, a JSON database on the fly or routes based web server

Getting started

Golem is a draft, there no pre-compiled executables yet. To use it you have to build it from sources.

To start a new Golem server you have to create a config file named golem.yaml This file should contain at least the following entries:

• port: the main port used by the server
• services: a list of one or more services mounted by Golem

Each service should contain:

• A name
• A type
• A configuration

There is an example of a server that's return a JSON object

port: "7171"
services: 
  - name: "Ping Server"
    http_config: 
      routes:
        "/ping": 
          body: '{"message": "pong!"}'

From this configuration file, Golem will start a server listening on the port 7171

You also use parameters on the route declaration and retrieve them as template variables:

port: "7171"
services: 
  - name: "Move"
    http_config: 
      routes:
        "/ping": 
          body: '{"message": "pong!"}'
        "/echo/:message":
          handler:
            type: "template"
            template: "${message}"

As you can see, to serve a static response we can simply use the body attribute. To use a template as response we have to use the handler attribute with two childs:

• type: to specicy the handler type. template in this case
• template: contains the template value