envented

Evented node.js server framework

Install

$ npm install envented

Run tests

$ npm test

or

$ make test

Why

Node.js has a lot of events. The process object has events. HTTP servers have events. Streams have events. Higher-level modules have events. However, you can't really write a web app with events. Node http servers emit events, but they don't emit events based on the type of request. For example

var server = http.createServer();
server.on('request', function(req, res){
    // do stuff
});

Do you do that? Probably not, you probably just do this:

var server = http.createServer(function(req, res){
    // do stuff
});

Now, those two methods of creating a server are the same. Which means building an actual server out of one or the other is also the same.

Get to the point

envented lets you do this:

var envented = require('envented');
 
var server = envented.Server() // this accepts an onRequest callback
 
server.use(server.router); // server is a connect.Server instance. YOU MUST USE THE ROUTER
 
server.on('get::/', function(req, res){
    res.end("Hi");
});
 
server.on('post::/form', function(req, res){
    // handle post data
});

The event namespacing is courtesy of EventEmitter2. All your favorite connect middleware is inside of envented.