flatiron-express

Ever wanted to use flatiron with its awesome plugin features and configuration integration but get rid of this crappy director thing and use express? This is what flatiron-express does. It integrates express into your flatiron application to replace director as router.

Usage

To include the express plugin use the following code to integrate it.

var flatiron = require('flatiron'),
    flatironExpress = require('flatiron-express'),
    app = flatiron.app;
app.use(flatironExpress);

Now you can start using express like this:

app.get('/', function (req, res) {
  ...
});
...

All the verbs you know from express are just provided to you through the application object.

Another feature is the use() proxy. flatiron-express replaces flatiron's use() method with a proxy to make it easy to use express middleware. Here's an example:

var express = app.express;

/* First we use some flatiron plugins as proof of concept. */

app.use(require('resourceful'));

...

/* And then we use ordinary express middleware.  So the following should be
 * pretty familiar to you. */

app
  .use(express.bodyParser())
  .use(express.session('keyboard cat'));

/* Finally we spawn the http server to hit express to action.  (I never
 * understood why flatiron's http does this ugly app.start thing) */

require('http').createServer(app.router).listen(8080);

Pretty straight forward.

API

Options

Options are supplied when attaching the plugin to the application:

...
app.use(require('flatiron-express'), {

  /* Options ... */

});
...

The following options are provided:

• instance - With this option you can supply a self-instantiated express instance which is then used.

Properties

In the following I describe the properties which are attached to the application object.

.router

This property holds the instantiated express instance.

.use()

Replaces the traditional use method with a proxy which can handle both express middleware and flatiron plugins.

.[VERB]()

All verbs provided by express. For the usage refer to the express documentation.