knot

knot module is a nodejs middleware to create websites.

Why not using connect ? express ?

I really love ExpressJS and Connect. But what I wanted to do was to implement a pseudo WSGI-like system. The main goal is to bundle some of my prefered modules in one place:

• sessions - simple session management
• swig for template engine
• use mimetype, underscore, etc...

How to use ?

At this time, you need to do some operation manually:

cd /path/to/yor/working/directory
npm install underscore swig mime sessions
cd node_modules
git clone [email protected]:metal3d/knot.git
cd ..

Then, you can implement your first appliction, create a "site.js" file:

var knot = require('knot');

//handler should serve get, post, put, delete requests
//you only have to implement route (as regexp) with right name
var Page1Handler = new knot.handler({
  route: '/page1',
  get: function (){
    // there you can get: this.sessions, this.response, this.request
    // and this.aparams (ordered from captured regexp if any)
    // you can write response with this.end("Text to send to client");
    // or render a template: this.render('path to template', context_object)
    
    this.response.end("Welcome on page 1 !");
  }
});


var server = knot.Server({
  handlers : [Page1Handler], //list of handlers,
  statics : ['css', 'js'], // directory names to be served statically
  templatess: './content/templates' // directory where templates can be found
});

server.serve(); //default listen on 0.0.0.0:8000 (open 127.0.0.1:8000/page1 to check result)