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

``javascript
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.

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

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#### .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




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#### .status(status)

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

#### .end(body)

#### .tryEnd(body)

#### .write()

#### .cork()

#### .offset()

#### .status()

#### .writable()

#### .close()

#### .cookie(name, { ... })

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

`javascript
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
})
`

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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.

`javascript
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
})
`

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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.

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

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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

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

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

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`javascript
// POST /user { name: 'Murray' }
app.post('/user', async r => {
const body = await r.body('json')
, user = await sqlinsert into users ${ sql(body) }

r.json(user, 201) // r.json sets Content-Type: application/json header
})
`

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

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

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`javascript
// 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')
})
`

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

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




The request object




Routing

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

`js

``

WebSockets