rest-buddy

Resourceful Framework that's got your back

Overview

RestBuddy is a light framework for creating JSON RESTy APIs. Currently it provides a middleware for Express, but could also provide one for Koa in the future. The overall design goals are:

• Strong validation of request body, request parameters, and response body
• Fast and easy to create standard REST endpoints, but not overly restrictive
• Ability to procedurally generate documentation (perhaps in the future via Swagger)
• Easily testable controller action handlers
• Standard middleware that can be composed with other middleware in the standard fashion

RestBuddy is an instantiatable class that takes in it constructor

• The resource name
• A specification for actions (action name, method, url, validation schemas, human readable info)
• A controller that exports action handlers

and provides getters for

• Express middleware that serves the resource
• The decorated specification (that includes generated REST actions)
• (future) Human readable documentation in markdown
• (future) Koa middleware that serves the resource

Usage

Idiomatic REST with no validations

A completely idiomtic REST endpoint (with no validation) would look like:

var app = require('express')(),
    RestBuddy = require('rest-buddy'),

    spec = {}, // RestBuddy autofills this for standard REST actions
    controller = {
        index:   function(req) { return {status: 200, data: {'ok'}}; },
        create:  function(req) { return {status: 200, data: {'ok'}}; },
        show:    function(req) { return {status: 200, data: {'ok'}}; },
        update:  function(req) { return {status: 200, data: {'ok'}}; },
        destroy: function(req) { return {status: 200, data: {'ok'}}; }
    },

    smurfsResource = new RestBuddy('smurfs', spec, controllers);

app.use(smurfsResource.middleware).listen(1337);

We can now use the following methods on the following URLs

GET    /smurfs    => 200 'ok'
POST   /smurfs    => 200 'ok'
GET    /smurfs/42 => 200 'ok'
PUT    /smurfs/42 => 200 'ok'
DELETE /smurfs/42 => 200 'ok'

Idiomatic REST with validations

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REST + custom actions

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Components

RestBuddy

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Specification

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Controller

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Development

Clone and install deps

npm i  

You can run tests one time

npm tst

Or you can run tests on changes

npm start

Build the final compiled lib with

npm run build