Expressico!

Expressico is a Express.JS bootstrapper, it includes a versitile configuration that is simple and easy to use. This bootstrap package will help keep your codebase clean and modular for those pesky microservices that you keep copying the same code over and over again.

Contributing & Development

Getting Started

Installation

# NPM
npm install expressico@latest
# YARN
yarn add expressico@latest

Basic Server Script

import expressico, { defineConfig, defineController, defineMiddleware } from "expressico";

const actuator = defineController({
  path: "/api/actuator"
});

actuator.add({
  path: "/alive",
  handler: (r, response) => {
    response.ok("YES");
  }
});

const customMiddleware = defineMiddleware({
  name: "customMiddleware"
  handler: (request, response, next) => {
    console.log(request.hostname)
    next();
  }
});

const config = defineConfig({
  debug: true,
  controllers: [ actuator ],
  middleware: [ customMiddleware ]
});

expressico.start(config);

Yes, its that simple.

Breakdown

Localhost development

By default, while developing locally Expressico will allow all CORS to pass through your development server.

HTTPS

By default, Expressico enforces any route to HTTPS, rather than HTTP.

To disable this:

const config = defineConfig({
  enforceHttps: false
})

JSON Body Parser

By default Expressico enables the use of req.body and parses it as JSON.

Compression

By default Expressico compresses the outgoing responses for quicker performance.

For more info see the compression package.

Helpful response functions

Expressico automatically creates some helpful response functions, for instance, in your controller you can:

controller.add({
  path: "/:id"
  handler: (req, res) => {
    const { id } = req.params;
    if(id) {
      res.ok({ SUCCESS: "The ID was successfully found and this 'ok' function returns this message and a status of 200" });
    } else {
      res.fail(400, "Bad request, the ID was not provided and this 'fail' function returns an error message and the provided status code of 400");
    }
  }
})

Controller API

Defining the controller

import { defineController } from "expressico";
const controller = defineController({
  path: "/api" // all routes added to this controller will be prefixed with "/api"
})

Adding routes to the controller

import { defineController } from "expressico";
const controller = defineController({ path: "/api" });
controller.add({
  path: "/my-custom-route" // will resolve to "/api/my-custom-route"
  method: "GET" // "GET" is the default method, this field is optional
  before: [] // these are extra RequestHandlers that are executed *before* the main handler is called.
             // This is especially usefull for handling auth or other error handling scenarios

  handler: (r, response) => { // Your main handler for this route and will be the final response after all the before handlers are called.
    response.ok({ "OK": "everything seems good" });
  }
})

You can call the .add function as many times as you want as long as you export the controller definition.

import { defineController } from "expressico";
const controller = defineController({ path: "/api" });
controller.add({ path: "/v1", handler: (r, response) => {
  response.ok({})
}});
controller.add({ path: "/v2", handler: (r, response) => {
  response.ok({})
}});
// you can also pass a spread array to the .add function...
controller.add(
  {
    path: "/v3", handler: (r, response) => {
      response.ok({})
    }
  },
  {
    path: "/v4", handler: (r, response) => {
      response.ok({})
    }
  }
);