Nanobe

Nanobe is a vanilla Node.js server with routing capabilities. It currently supports servering static files, routing, query parameters and post data.

Setup

• Mocha is required as a global dependency for running tests.
• npm install is required to install Chai for running tests.

Testing

Run npm test to execute the tests.

Features

• Request body parsed in utilities.js
• When requesting a folder, the server looks for index.html by default
• If a matching file is not found in the public folder, all routes are checked
• Unit testing for core features
• Ability to parse query parameters in utilites.js
• Support for nested routes and nested routers

Future Plans

• [ ] Route parameters
• [ ] Additional testing
• [ ] Middleware support
• [ ] Security audit

Resources

• https://adrianmejia.com/blog/2016/08/24/building-a-node-js-static-file-server-files-over-http-using-es6/
• https://medium.com/@grantspilsbury/dry-node-js-server-code-without-express-4db391a9ac60
• https://nodejs.org/api/fs.html#fs_fs_access_path_mode_callback
• https://mherman.org/blog/testing-node-js-with-mocha-and-chai/
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Server-side/Node_server_without_framework
• https://www.chaijs.com/plugins/chai-http/