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NHttp

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Just native HTTP/2 micro framework for Deno. so hot 🚀

Note: Deno native HTTP/2 Hyper requires Deno version 1.9.0 or higher.

Features

  • HTTP/2 support.
  • Middleware support.
  • Sub router support.
  • Includes body parser (jsonBody, urlencodedBody).
  • No third party modules and no std/lib by default.

See examples

Benchmark

Here the simple benchmark.

autocannon -c 100 http://localhost:3000/hello

Name Req/sec Throughput
Native 21433 2.5 MB
NHttp 21127 2.5 MB
std/http 14569 626 KB

Note: maybe not relevant if compared with std/http or other Deno framework using std/http. nhttp uses native deno http.

Installation

deno.land

import { NHttp } from "https://deno.land/x/nhttp@0.2.1/mod.ts";

nest.land

import { NHttp } from "https://x.nest.land/nhttp@0.2.1/mod.ts";

Usage

import { NHttp, JsonResponse } from "https://deno.land/x/nhttp@0.2.1/mod.ts";

const app = new NHttp();

// rev is RequestEvent
app.get("/hello", (rev) => {
    rev.response.body('Hello')
});

app.get("/json", ({ response }) => {
    response.json({ name: 'nhttp' })
});

app.post("/save", ({ response, body }) => {
    response.json(body);
});

app.listen(3000, () => {
    console.log("> Running on port 3000");
});

Run

Note: Deno native http is unstable. so just add –unstable flag.

deno run --allow-net --allow-read --unstable yourfile.ts

Middleware

import { NHttp, Handler } from "https://deno.land/x/nhttp@0.2.1/mod.ts";

const app = new NHttp();

const foo: Handler = (rev, next) => {
    rev.foo = "foo";
    next();
}

app.use(foo);

app.get("/foo", ({ response, foo }) => {
    response.send(foo)
});

app.listen(3000);

Wrapper for middleware

Simple wrapper like HOC for middleware (req, res, next);

Note: not all middleware can work.

import { NHttp, Handler, wrapMiddleware, UnprocessableEntityError } from "https://deno.land/x/nhttp@0.2.1/mod.ts";
import { body, validationResult } from "https://esm.sh/express-validator";

const app = new NHttp();

// example express validator
const validator: Handler[] = [
  wrapMiddleware([
    body("username").isString(),
    body("password").isLength({ min: 6 }),
    body("email").isEmail(),
  ]),
  (rev, next) => {
    const errors = validationResult(rev);
    if (!errors.isEmpty()) {
       // status 422
      throw new UnprocessableEntityError(errors.array());
    }
    next();
  },
];

app.post("/user", validator, ({ response, body }) => {
    response.send(body)
});

app.listen(3000);

wrapMiddleware(…middleware: any, { beforeWrap });

BeforeWrap

Modify RequestEvent and HttpResponse before wrap.

...
app.use(wrapMiddleware(
    [midd1(), midd2()],
    {
        beforeWrap: (rev, res) => {
            // rev.any = fn;
            // res.any = fn;
        }
    }
))
...

Router

import { NHttp, Router } from "https://deno.land/x/nhttp@0.2.1/mod.ts";

const app = new NHttp();

// user router
const userRouter = new Router();
userRouter.get("/user", ({ response }) => {
    response.send("hello user");
});

// item router
const itemRouter = new Router();
itemRouter.get("/item", ({ response }) => {
    response.send("hello item");
});

// register the router
app.use('/api', [userRouter, itemRouter]);
// or with middleware
// app.use('/api', mid1, mid2, [userRouter, itemRouter]);

app.listen(3000);

Rev

rev is a RequestEvent with some object like :

// default from Deno.RequestEvent
request: Request;
respondWith(r: Response | Promise<Response>): Promise<void>;

// custom
body: { [k: string]: any };
file: { [k: string]: any };
responseInit: ResponseInit;
response: HttpResponse;
url: string;
originalUrl: string;
params: { [k: string]: any };
path: string;
query: { [k: string]: any };
search: string | null;
_parsedUrl: { [k: string]: any };
// more...

Request

Just Web API Request.

...
console.log(rev.request.method);
// => GET

console.log(rev.request.url);
// => http://localhost:3000/path

console.log(new URL(rev.request.url));
// => URL {...}

console.log(rev.request.headers);
// => Headers {...}
...

Note: rev.request.url is a full url. rev.url is a path url.

Response

...
// example with status and headers
app.get("/hello", ({ response }) => {
    response.status(200).header({ 'name': 'value' }).send('hello');
})
...

Response.header

header: (key?: object | string | undefined, value?: any) => HttpResponse | string | Headers;

...
// key and value
res.header("key1", "value1");

// with object
res.header({ "key2": "value2" });

// multiple header
res.header({
    "key3": "value3",
    "key4": "value4"
});

// get header
console.log(res.header());
// => Headers {
//         "key1":"value1",
//         "key2":"value2",
//         "key3":"value3",
//         "key4":"value4",
//     }

// get header by key
console.log(res.header("key1"));
// => value1

// delete key1
res.header().delete("key1");
console.log(res.header());
// => Headers {
//         "key2":"value2",
//         "key3":"value3",
//         "key4":"value4",
//     }

// convert to json object
console.log(Object.fromEntries(res.header().entries()));
// => {
//       "key2":"value2",
//       "key3":"value3",
//       "key4":"value4",
//    }

// reset header
res.header(new Headers());
console.log(res.header());
// => Headers { }

Response.type

Shorthand for response.header(“Content-Type”, yourContentType);

Response.status

status: (code?: number | undefined) => HttpResponse | number;

// set status
res.status(201);

// get status
console.log(res.status());
// => 201

Response.send

send: (body?: BodyInit | { [k: string]: any } | null) => Promise;

Response.json

json: (body: { [k: string]: any } | null) => Promise;

Response.redirect

redirect: (path: string, status?: number) => Promise;

RespondWith

Just callback Web API Response.

...
// example with status and headers
app.get("/hello", (rev) => {
    rev.respondWith(new Response("Hello", {
        status: 200,
        headers: new Headers({
            'x-powered-by': 'nhttp'
        })
    }))
})
...

Upload File

import { NHttp, multipart } from "https://deno.land/x/nhttp@0.2.1/mod.ts";
const app = new NHttp();

// handle upload multipart/form-data
app.post("/upload", multipart.upload({ name: "image" }), ({ response, file }) => {
    console.log(file.image);
    // => file or [file1, file2]
    response.send('success upload file');
});
app.listen(3000);

Multipart

...

// non upload
multipart.default();

// upload
multipart.upload({ name: "image" });

// single upload
multipart.upload({ name: "image", maxCount: 1 });

// required field (will throw bad request error 400)
multipart.upload({ name: "image", required: true });

// accept file
multipart.upload({ name: "image", accept: 'png|jpg' });

// maxSize file
multipart.upload({ name: "image", maxSize: '2 mb' });

// callback
multipart.upload({
    name: "image", 
    callback: (file) => {
        // change filename
        file.filename = Date.now() + file.name;
    }
});

// destination
multipart.upload({
    name: "image", 
    dest: "public/user_folder/"
});

// multiple field
multipart.upload(
    [
        { 
            name: "user_image", 
            dest: "public/user_folder/"
            // other
        },
        { 
            name: "employee_image", 
            dest: "public/employee_folder/"
            // other
        }
    ]
);
...

Params

Just object path parameters.

...
app.get("/user/:name", ({ response, params }) => {
    console.log(params);
    // => { name: 'john' }

    response.send(params.name);
});
...

// optional params.
// => { name: 'john' } or { name: null }
app.get("/user/:name?", ...handlers);

// extension params (Example: only png and jpg).
// => { filename: 'file.jpg' } or { filename: 'file.png' }
app.get("/image/:filename.(png|jpg)", ...handlers);

// exact params.
// => { wild: ['param1', 'param2'] }
app.get("/all/*", ...handlers);

Query

Just object query parameters.

...
// example: /user?name=john
app.get("/user", ({ response, query }) => {
    console.log(query);
    // => { name: 'john' }

    response.send(query.name);
});
...

Error Handling

...
// global error handling
app.onError((error, rev) => {
    response.status(error.status || 500).send(error.message);
})

// global not found error handling
app.on404((rev) => {
    response.status(404).send('Not Found');
})
...

Error

Simple error handling.

import { NHttp, BadRequestError } from "https://deno.land/x/nhttp@0.2.1/mod.ts";

const app = new NHttp();

app.post("/user", ({ response }) => {
    const data = await saveUser();
    if (!data) {
        throw new BadRequestError('Bad request for save');
    }
    response.send(data);
});

app.listen(3000);

Listen

app.listen(3000);
// or
const callback = (err, opts) => {
    if (err) console.log(err);
    console.log("Running on server 3000");
}
app.listen(3000, callback);
// or
app.listen({ port: 3000, hostname: 'localhost' }, callback);
// or https
app.listen({ 
    port: 443,
    certFile: "./path/to/localhost.crt",
    keyFile: "./path/to/localhost.key",
}, callback);
// or http/2
app.listen({ 
    port: 443,
    certFile: "./path/to/localhost.crt",
    keyFile: "./path/to/localhost.key",
    alpnProtocols: ["h2", "http/1.1"]
}, callback);

Config

...
// example config
const app = new NHttp({
    parseQuery: qs.parse,  /* default from utils */
    bodyLimit: {
        json: "1mb",       /* default 3mb */
        urlencoded: "1mb"  /* default 3mb */
    },
    env: "development"     /* or production */
});
...

What’s Next ?

See examples

Want to contribute to this project? I gladly welcome it.

  • Please fork.
  • Create a branch.
  • Commit changes (before commit, please format the code with the command deno fmt in the src folder).
  • Push to the created branch.
  • Make a PR (Pull Requests).
  • Thanks.

License

MIT