impress

Impress

Impressive totalitarian style web application framework for node.js.

Installation

$ npm install impress

Features

• url routing based on file system
• serving multiple ports, network interfaces, hosts and protocols
• caching server-side executable JavaScript in memory
• simple server-side templating
• folder monitoring for server-side executable JavaScript changes and template changes
• sessions and cookies (memory state or persistent sessions with mongoDB)
• simple way for json-based web services development
• serving static files with content type and streaming for media files
• multiple instantiation strategies:
  • single instance (one process, no master and workers)
  • instance specialization (multiple processes, one master and different workers for each server)
  • multiple instances (multiple processes, one master and identical workers with no sticky)
  • ip sticky (multiple processes, one master and workers with serving sticky by IP)
• reverse-proxy (routing request to external HTTP server with url-rewriting)
• flexible configuration in json file
• simple logging web requests

Example

server.js:

require('impress');
impress.init(function() {
	// Place here other initialization code
	// to be executed after Impress initialization
});

Configuration

1. Copy project template from examples into your project folder
2. Edit config.js file in project folder
3. If you want to store persistent sessions in MongoDB, you need to run setup.js
4. Run command: node server.js

Handler examples and file system url mapping

1. Template example Location: http://localhost Base template: /sites/localhost/html.template
2. Override included "left.template" Location: http://localhost/override Overriden template: /sites/localhost/override/left.template Base template: /sites/localhost/html.template Handler: /sites/localhost/request.js
3. JSON api method example Location: http://localhost/api/examples/methodName.json Handler: /sites/localhost/api/examples/methodName.json/get.js
4. Start anonymous session Location: http://localhost/api/auth/anonymousSession.json Handler: /sites/localhost/api/auth/anonymousSession.json/get.js
5. POST request handler Location: POST http://localhost/api/auth/regvalidation.json Handler: /sites/localhost/api/auth/regvalidation.json/post.js
6. MongoDB access example Location: http://localhost/api/examples/getUsers.json Handler: /sites/localhost/api/examples/getUsers.json/get.js

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2012-2013 MetaSystems <[e-mail]>

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