hotcakes

hotcakes is a RESTful framework built with configuration in mind. It uses restify under the hood for routing and makes building your REST api quick and easy.

Installtion

npm install --save hotcakes

Usage

hotcakes by default looks for your controllers in <cwd>/controllers, however, this can be overidden in the hotcake constructor. An example structure might look like this

|- lib/
  |_ controllers/
  |_ models/
  |_ app.js
|- index.js

app.js

import Stack from "hotcakes";
 
// pass in restify options OR your own restify app instance
 
let hotcake = new Stack({
  app: restify.createServer(),
  restify: {
    .. restify options ..
  }
});
 
export default hotcake;

index.js

 
import app from "./lib/app";
 
// initialize your api and start listening. Listens on 3800 by default
app.boot();

Controllers

Controllers handle actions. Controllers should be defined by their route counterpart and the controller files should be in PascalCase e.g. UserContoller.js Controllers' actions map to HTTP methods, with the exception of a route defined as a sub resource (e.g. /users/:id which will map to a findById controller action. If an HTTP method is not defined for one of your controllers, hotcakes will return a MethodNotAllowed error. An example controller

UserController.js

export default {
  get: function (req, res, next) {
    db.findAll().then(function (user) {
      res.send(200, user);
    });
  },
  findById: function (req, res, next) {
    // the default paramKey is "id"
    db.findById(req.params.id).then(function (user) {
      res.send(200, user);
    });
  },
  post: function (req, res, next) {
    db.create(req.body).then(
  }
};

Routes

Routes are the api. Routes define where requests should go and what to do with them. Defining routes with hotcakes is super simple.

app.js

import Stack from "hotcakes";
 
let hotcake = new Stack();
let Router = hotcake.Router;
 
Router.map(function () {
  this.resource("users");
 
  // define a path otherwise the path will be implied
 
  this.resource("users", { path: "/people" });
 
 
  // define a paramKey or use the default "id"
 
  this.resource("users", { paramKey: "user_id" });
});
 
export default hotcake;

The above will generate the following routes automatically, using user defined controllers for each action (e.g GET /users calls UserController#get)

GET /users        -> UserController.get
GET /users/:id    -> UserController.findById
PUT /users/:id    -> UserController.put
POST /users       -> UserController.post
DELETE /users/:id -> UserController.delete

Hotcakes(options)

Hotcake constructor

options

• app: restify app instance (optional)
• controllersPath: path to controllers directory (optional) Default: ./controllers
• port: port for app to listen on. Default: 3800
• restify: options to pass to built in restify app

boot()

initializes app and starts listening.

Router(options)

Builds routes and maps them to controllers. Typically accessed through hotcakes.Router. options are the same as Hotcakes

map(callback)

Maps resources to a set of routes.

Router.map(function () {
  this.resource("users");
});

Contributing

Pull Requests and issues welcome! See contributing

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Dylan Foster [e-mail]

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