expi

Modular, Minimalistic API Framework built with express.

Installation

Install expi using

$ npm install --save expi

Example

A working example can be found in the modules root folder.

$ node node_modules/expi/example/app.js

or

$ cd node_modules/expi && npm run example

TODO

• Documentation for:
  • Module
  • Method
  • Route
  • Expi
• Linting
• Testing
• Add new features
  • Dedicated session/authentication hook
  • Custom response schema
  • Extended response functionality
  • Clusterization
  • Extended versioning (Provide versioned modules under special routes for backward compatablility)
  • New layer ontop of route parameters
• Expose all express functions without interfering with expi functionality
• Proper releases
• Build tasks
• Handling preRoutes middleware while still returning 404 on module path without a route specified
• Handle default errors, http codes, bad requests etc.

Documentation

A small overview over the functionality expi provides

Expi.Module(options)

Usage:

    let Module = require('expi').Module
    let module = new Module(options)

Configuration:

• options
  • name: The name of the Module, this gets displayed as response.meta.name
  • version: The version of the Module, this gets displayed as response.meta.version
  • path: The base path of the module. This path is relative to the root path of the server.
  • ?middleware
    • preRoutes: Array of functions, these functions are plugged in as middleware before any routes and even before the internal expi-middleware
    • postRoutes: Array of functions, these functions are pluggin in as middleware after all routes and even after the internal expi-middleware (Caution: if expi-middleware is active, a response might be sent already!)
  • routes: Array of expi.Route instances
  • ?methods: Array of expi.Method instances

More documentation coming soon, for details take a look at the example in expi_root/example

(This module is in an early state, use with caution)