Tomahawk

Tomahawk provide you with a minimal http server, that can be started on the command line to serve static content.

To install

npm install -g tomahawk

How to use the Tomahawk web server

• To serve the current directory using the default port 8080

  tomahawk

• To serve "web/public" from the current directory using the default port 8080

  tomahawk --www=web/public

• To use a different port (e.g. 3000)

  tomahawk --port=3000

• How can I prefix my static content with MyApp (e.g. http://localhost:8080/MyApp insead of the default http://localhost:8080/)

  tomahawk --context=/MyApp

• How about less logging?

  tomahawk --level=error

How can I add CORS http headers

tomahawk --config=config.development.json

or

tomahawk --headers='["Access-Control-Allow-Origin:*","Access-Control-Allow-Methods:GET,PUT,POST,DELETE","Access-Control-Allow-Headers:Content-Type","X-Frame-Options:ALLOWALL"]'

start a CGI

tomahawk --cgi='[{"route":"/echo","method":"POST","command":"/bin/sh", "args":["-c", "read line ; echo $line"], "encoding":"utf8"}]'
echo allo | curl -X POST -d @- http://localhost:8080/echo

• Can I save the configration, to avoid typing it every time?

  1. Either create a config.json and save it in the current working directory
  2. Create your configuration file (e.g. tommy.cfg) and : tomahawk --config=tommy.cfg or export CONFIG=tommy.cfg tomahawk

  Your configuration file should look like:

    {
        "level"      : "error",
        "www"        : ".",
        "context"    : "/MyApp",
        "port"       : 9000,
        "headers"    : [
            "Access-Control-Allow-Origin:*",
            "X-Frame-Options:ALLOWALL"
        ],
        "cgi" : [
            {
                "route"   : "/version",
            	"method"  : "GET",
            	"command" : "/bin/sh",
            	"args"    : ["-c",  "echo '{\"version\":\"1.0.0\"}'"]
            }
        ]
     }
  

How can I include tomahawk into my project as a module to server REST routes?

You can look at the sample code under the sample directory:

samples/sample_server.js:

var app = require('tomahawk').create({port:8080,routes:[__dirname + '/lib/routes']}).start();

samples/lib/routes.js':

module.exports = function () {

    function routes(app, config, io) {
        var database = {
            captains : {
                "jim"    : "James Tiberius Kirk",
                "picard" : "Jean-Luc Picard"
            },
            starShips : {
                "jim": "NCC1701-A",
                "picard": "NCC1701-D"
            }
        };

        // GET
        app.get('/api/v1/captain/:id?', function (req, res) {
            var withStarship = req.query.starship === 'true';
            if (req.params.id) {
                res.json(withStarship ?
                {id:req.params.id,name:database.captains[req.params.id], starship:database.starShips[req.params.id]} :
                {id:req.params.id,name:database.captains[req.params.id]});
            } else {
                res.json(database.captains);
            }
            res.end();
        });

        // PUT
        app.put('/api/v1/captain/:id', function (req, res) {
            database.captains[req.params.id] = req.body;
            io.sockets.emit('new:captain', {id:req.params.id, name:req.body});  // Optional, if you want to use websocket
            res.json({id:req.params.id,operation:"put",status:"OK"});
            res.end();
        });

        // DELETE
        app.delete('/api/v1/captain/:id', function (req, res) {
            delete database.captains[req.params.id];
            io.sockets.emit('del:captain', {id:req.params.id}); // Optional, if you want to use websocket
            res.json({id:req.params.id,operation:"delete", status:"OK"});
            res.end();
        });
    }

    return routes;
}();    

Run:

node sample_server.js