Simple Express.js Application Wrapper

This wrapper makes it very easy to construct a new instance of an Express.js web server application using HTTP or HTTPs.

Features include:

• Preloaded recommended headers (optional)
• Automatic 404 handling (optional)
• Compression (optional)
• Auto-parsing of request bodies (all optional)
  • JSON
  • Raw
  • Text
  • URLEncoded
  • XML
• Automatically attempts to decode the authorization header into request.authorization
  • Basic
  • Bearer
  • JWT
• Provides a logging facility for requests or can specify a callback to receive request entries
• Automatically resolves a number of different proxy-related fields for the client IP address into request.remoteIp in the following order:
  • Cf-Connecting-IPv6
  • X-Forwarded-For
  • Cf-Connecting-IP
  • request.ip
• Session support via in-memory data store
  • Alternatively, specify a data store
• Cookie parsing support, including signed cookies
• Injects a unique request ID for every single request both in the log and in the response as X-Request-ID and request.id
• Injects the amount of time elapsed between when the request is received and when the response headers are written in X-Response-Time which is also logged in the log entry.
• Simple support for "protected" routes that allow for specifying a simple AuthenticationProvider to "protect" those routes
• WebSocket via additional method signature of .ws('path', (socket, request) => void)
• Simple cloudflared support to spin up test tunnels using Cloudflare
  • Note: The public URLs will be randomly generated by Cloudflare

Documentation

https://gibme-npm.github.io/webserver/

Sample Code

import WebServer, { Logger } from '@gibme/webserver';

(async() => {
    const app = WebServer({
        autoStartCloudflared: true
    });
    
    app.get('/', (request, response) => {
        return response.json({ success: true });
    })

    app.ws('/wss', (socket) => {
        socket.on('message', msg => {
            // simply echo the message back
            socket.send(msg);
        });
    });
    
    await app.start();
    
    Logger.info('Listening on: %s', app.localUrl);
    Logger.info('Listening on: %s', app.tunnelUrl);
    Logger.info('Listening on: %s', app.url);
})();