This is a Webmachine toolkit for NodeJS, inspired by the original Erlang Webmachine and Ruby port. Thanks also to Nodemachine for some test scenarios.
The easiest way to get started is to include webmachine npm project into package.json.
{
"name": "wmtest",
"version": "1.0.0",
"dependencies": {
"webmachine" : "~>0.0.3"
}
}From there, create a webmachine resource. The same functions that can be overridden in other webmachine implementations can be done here, the only difference is that the function names are a JavaScripty camel case style, rather than underscore seperated.
Here is a simple app that adds a root ("/") resource to the service running on port 3000. You can add as many resources as you need. Routes can be an array, and also conform to Sinatra rules (eg. /users/:uid).
var wm = require('webmachine');
var root = {
route: "/",
toHtml: function(req, res, next) {
next("<html><h1>Hello World</h1></html>");
}
};
wm.add(root);
wm.start(3000, '0.0.0.0');If you run into issues, you can trace the output. It will present a list of steps taken to arrive at the given response.
wm.trace(true);
The output might not make a lot of sense without this chart, the steps are the decision points.
