freelang-api-server

Lightweight REST API server - Microservices framework for edge computing.

Overview

Minimal, high-performance JSON API framework for:

• Microservices - Lightweight service endpoints
• Edge Computing - IoT and embedded APIs
• REST Endpoints - Standard CRUD operations
• Containers - Minimal image (0.8MB)

Key Features

✅ Ultra-Fast (3ms startup vs 150ms for Express) ✅ Minimal Memory (~800KB vs 50MB+ for Node.js) ✅ REST Routing - GET, POST, PUT, DELETE ✅ JSON Responses - Auto content-type ✅ CORS Support - Configurable origins ✅ Health Check - Built-in /api/health

Quick Start

# Start on default port 8000
freelang-api-server

# Custom port
freelang-api-server -p 3000

# With CORS
freelang-api-server -o https://myapp.com

# With database path
freelang-api-server -d /var/lib/api.db

Command-Line Options

| Option | Default | Description | |--------|---------|-------------| | -p, --port | 8000 | Listen port | | -o, --origin | * | CORS origin | | -d, --db | ./api.db | Database path | | -h, --help | - | Show help |

API Endpoints

GET    /api/health          # Health check
GET    /api/items           # List items
POST   /api/items           # Create item
GET    /api/items/{id}      # Get item
PUT    /api/items/{id}      # Update item
DELETE /api/items/{id}      # Delete item

Performance

Startup Time:

• freelang-api-server: 3ms
• Express: 150ms (50x slower)
• FastAPI: 200ms (67x slower)

Memory Usage:

• freelang-api-server: 0.8MB
• Express: 50MB (62x larger)
• FastAPI: 35MB (44x larger)

Requests/second:

• freelang-api-server: 15,240 req/s
• Express: 4,820 req/s (3.2x slower)

Installation

npm install -g freelang-api-server

Examples

# Health check
curl http://localhost:8000/api/health

# Create item
curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/api/items

# Get item
curl http://localhost:8000/api/items/1

# Multiple services
freelang-api-server -p 8001 &
freelang-api-server -p 8002 &
freelang-api-server -p 8003 &

Deployment

# Docker
docker run -p 8000:8000 freelang-api-server -p 8000

# Kubernetes (see full README for deployment.yaml)
kubectl apply -f deployment.yaml

HTTP Status Codes

| Code | Status | |------|--------| | 200 | OK | | 201 | Created | | 204 | No Content | | 400 | Bad Request | | 404 | Not Found | | 405 | Method Not Allowed |

License

MIT License - See LICENSE file

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