Rivet

Rivet is a small Typescript based server platform for NodeJS, it is a Express inspired library for servers

Installing

To install Rivet you will need to have an NPM project setup, if not run the necessary commands. Then you can run this command to install rivet:npm install @igosprojects/rivet

Usage

To use Rivet you first need to install it using your package manager(look at Installing).

Creating a basic server

To create a basic server you will need to initilize Rivet, and start the server. The following code does just that:

import { IncomingMessage } from 'node:http';
import { Rivet, RivetResponse } from '@igosprojects/rivet';

const app = new Rivet();

// This function is called when the route "/" is called
app.get('/', (req: IncomingMessage, res: RivetResponse) => {
    res.send("hi!");
});

app.start(3000);

Serving static files

Rivet supports serving static files and folders, to do so you can use the app.static function after initilizing the server. For example this code will serve the public directory next to the file:

import { Rivet } from '@igosprojects/rivet';

const app = new Rivet();

app.static("/", "./public");

app.start(3000); 

Reading parameters(/:id)

Rivet can read parameters passed on the URL bar, to do that you can use the req.params option for that. To read the parameters you can do: const { paramname } = req.params;, now paramname is equal to the parameter if it was passed in. To register routes with parameters you shouldnt register /users but instead /users/:id otherwise it wont work!