Scylla

A router/microframework for NodeJS.

Scylla:

• Is tightly tied to HTTP--there's no HTTP abstraction going on.
• Handles all HTTP verbs more or less equivalently--it's no more difficult to handle a DELETE than a GET, for example.
• Uses standard regular expressions to do the URL matching and routing.

A Scylla application is simply a JavaScript object that inherits from scylla.Base. To figure out how to route a request, Scylla looks the method names of this object, which double as URL-matching patterns: the method GET /user/(.*) is invoked when a GET request is made for a URL like /user/mjs. (And mjs is passed as an argument to the method.)

If myapp is a Scylla object, calling the dispatcher() method on it returns a function suitable for passing to http.createServer(...):

http.createServer(myapp.adapter('nodejs')).listen(8000);

Examples

Hello, World

require.paths.unshift("../lib");

var sys = require('sys'),
    scylla = require('scylla');

function HelloWorld(name) {
    scylla.Base.call(this);
    this.name = name;
}

HelloWorld.prototype = scylla.beget({

    "GET /$": function(req, res) {
    
        var body = "Hello, " + this.name + "!\n";

        res.writeHead(200, {
            "content-type": "text/plain",
            "content-length": body.length
        });
        res.write(body);
        res.end();

    }

});

DEBUG = true;

require('http').createServer(new HelloWorld("Michael").adapter('nodejs')).listen(8000);

Other Examples

There are a few Scylla demos in the examples directory:

$ node static.js 
Server running at http://127.0.0.1:8000/

Examples:

  $ curl -i -s -X GET http://127.0.0.1:8000/static.js
  $ curl -i -s -X GET http://127.0.0.1:8000/status

Author

Michael Stillwell
mjs@beebo.org
@ithinkihaveacat