restify

What is restify?

Restify is a Node.js web service framework optimized for building RESTful APIs. It is designed to be lightweight and efficient, making it ideal for creating scalable and high-performance web services.

What are restify's main functionalities?

Creating a Basic Server

This code demonstrates how to create a basic Restify server that listens on port 8080 and responds with 'Hello, world!' when a GET request is made to the '/hello' endpoint.

const restify = require('restify');
const server = restify.createServer();

server.get('/hello', (req, res, next) => {
  res.send('Hello, world!');
  next();
});

server.listen(8080, () => {
  console.log('%s listening at %s', server.name, server.url);
});

Middleware Support

This example shows how to use middleware in Restify. The bodyParser plugin is used to parse the body of incoming POST requests, and the server responds with the parsed body.

const restify = require('restify');
const server = restify.createServer();

server.use(restify.plugins.bodyParser());

server.post('/data', (req, res, next) => {
  res.send(req.body);
  next();
});

server.listen(8080, () => {
  console.log('%s listening at %s', server.name, server.url);
});

Error Handling

This code demonstrates how to handle errors in Restify. When a GET request is made to the '/error' endpoint, an InternalServerError is thrown. The 'restifyError' event is used to log the error and send an appropriate response.

const restify = require('restify');
const server = restify.createServer();

server.get('/error', (req, res, next) => {
  return next(new restify.errors.InternalServerError('Something went wrong!'));
});

server.on('restifyError', (req, res, err, callback) => {
  console.error(err);
  res.send(err);
  return callback();
});

server.listen(8080, () => {
  console.log('%s listening at %s', server.name, server.url);
});

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README

restify is a framework, utilizing connect style middleware for building REST APIs. For full details, see http://restify.com

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Usage

Server

var restify = require('restify');

const server = restify.createServer({
  name: 'myapp',
  version: '1.0.0'
});

server.use(restify.plugins.acceptParser(server.acceptable));
server.use(restify.plugins.queryParser());
server.use(restify.plugins.bodyParser());

server.get('/echo/:name', function (req, res, next) {
  res.send(req.params);
  return next();
});

server.listen(8080, function () {
  console.log('%s listening at %s', server.name, server.url);
});

Client

var assert = require('assert');
var clients = require('restify-clients');

var client = clients.createJsonClient({
  url: 'http://localhost:8080',
  version: '~1.0'
});

client.get('/echo/mark', function (err, req, res, obj) {
  assert.ifError(err);
  console.log('Server returned: %j', obj);
});

Installation

$ npm install restify

Supported Node Versions

Restify aims to support the Node.js LTS (Active and Maintenance) versions along with Node.js current stable version.

Node Release	Supported in Current Version	Notes
11.x	Yes	Current stable
10.x	Yes	Active LTS
8.x	Yes	Maintenance LTS
6.x	No	Use restify v7.x, team will backport critical issues only
4.x	No	Use restify v7.x, team will backport critical issues only

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2018 restify

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Bugs

See https://github.com/restify/node-restify/issues.

Other repositories

• For the errors module, please go here.

Mailing list

See the Google group .

Changelog

8.5.0 (2019-12-02)

Features

• chain: use nextTick instead of setImmediate (#1808) (703470ad)

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