express-restfql

Express RestFQL

Motivation

RestFQL for express is a rest middlevare that implements the specification.

In short RestFQL allows filtering of response driven by the querying side without breaking caching and keeping the capability for the backend to do optimizations as required.

Usage

• install with a package manager

npm install express-restfql

yarn add express-restfql

• Add the middleware to your express server

import express from 'express';
import restfql from 'express-restfql';
const app = express();

app.use(restfql)

app.get('/', (req, res) => {
  res.json({
    message: 'Hello World!', 
    description: "awesome description",
    tags:{
        mandatory: ["mand_tag1","mand_tag1"],
        optional:  ["opt_tag1","opt_tag1"],
    }
});
});

app.listen(3000);

• query passing the model as a query param call fql