pure-http

Bring the middleware and router to native http.

Installation

$ npm install --save pure-http

Usage

Basic server:

const pureHttp = require('pure-http');

const app = pureHttp();

app.get('/', (req, res) => {
  res.send('Hello world');
});

app.listen(3000);

Existing server:

const http = require('http');
const pureHttp = require('pure-http');

const server = http.createServer();

const app = pureHttp({ server });

app.listen(3000);

Secure server:

const https = require('https');
const pureHttp = require('pure-http');

const server = https.createServer({
  key: ...,
  cert: ...,
});

const app = pureHttp({ server });

app.listen(3000);

Application Options:

• server: Allows to optionally override the HTTP server instance to be used.

  Default: undefined.

• onError: A handler when an error is thrown (Deprecated: It has been removed from 3.0.0).

  Default: ((error, req, res) => res.send(error)).

• onNotFound: A handler when no route definitions were matched (Deprecated: It has been removed from 3.0.0).

  Default: ((req, res) => res.send("Cannot " + req.method + " " + req.url)).

• views: An object to configuration render function.

  Default: undefined.

  • dir: A directory for the application's views.

  • ext: The default engine extension to use when omitted.

  • engine: Registers the given template engine.

• Router Options:

  • prefix: Allow append the path before each route.

    Default: undefined.

Router

const { Router } = require('pure-http');

const router = Router();

router.get('/', (req, res) => {
  res.send('Hello world');
});

/* ... */

const pureHttp = require('pure-http');

const app = pureHttp();

app.use('/api', router);

app.listen(3000);

API References

You can read more at API.md.

Benchmarks

Please remember that your application code is most likely the slowest part of your application! Switching from Express to pure-http will (likely) not guarantee the same performance gains.

• Machine: Ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-sgp1-01, x86-64, Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v4 @ 2.20GHz, 16GB RAM.
• Node: v12.18.4
• Run: Tue, 16 Mar 2021 16:09:01

Framework	Version	Requests/Sec	Latency
pure-http (with cache)	latest	~ 6,349	15.11ms
pure-http	latest	~ 6,255	15.39ms
tinyhttp	1.2.17	~ 4,942	19.44ms
fastify	3.14.0	~ 3,310	29.10ms
express	4.17.1	~ 2,188	43.87ms

• Machine: Ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-sgp1-01, x86-64, Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v4 @ 2.20GHz, 16GB RAM.
• Node: v12.18.4
• Run: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 21:07:21

Framework	Version	Requests/Sec	Latency
pure-http (with cache)	2.x.x	~ 8,792	10.92ms
pure-http	2.x.x	~ 8,633	11.12ms
polka	0.5.2	~ 7,364	13.03ms
express	4.17.1	~ 3,588	26.86ms
fastify	3.8.0	~ 2,702	35.54ms

See more: BENCHMARKS

License

The code in this project is released under the MIT License.