cnn-routeomatic

CNN Route-O-Matic

This is a library for use with ExpressJS-based web servers to provide an extremely versatile routing system.

The Route-O-Matic uses a single configuration set to allow complete build-time OR run-time configuration of hostnames and routes supported by the server. Furthermore, the hosts and routes can be changed at any time without requiring a restart of the server.

The library consists of four primary components:

• The main Route-O-Matic library itself (lib/routeomatic.js), all that needs to be included for use.
• The Host-Table library (lib/host-table.js), which provides the virtual host functionality.
• The Route-Table library (lib/route-table.js), which provides the route table parsing and resolving functionality.
• The RouteOMatic-Request, or ROM-Request, library (lib/rom-request.js), which provides a new request object for use with Route-O-Matic route handling functions.

A brief rundown of some key features:

• Fully run-time configurable and re-configurable.
• Supports any number of virtual hosts with unique or shared route tables.
• Route tables can use regular expressions or much faster prefix tree/Trie-based logic.
• Ability to define a default host to use for unconfigured host names.
• Redirects, rewrites, handled routes are all configured as "routes".
• Built-in easy to use proxy logic.

What is not yet done...

• Documentation needs to be written.
• A test suite needs to be created.