The latest articles on DEV Community by Abdelrahman Ashraf (@theashraf). https://dev.to/theashraf https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F111284%2F13d93f6a-dcfa-4173-a372-73ae3521c7c6.jpeg https://dev.to/theashraf en Abdelrahman Ashraf Sat, 24 Aug 2019 22:44:58 +0000 https://dev.to/theashraf/create-your-own-node-framework-38mi https://dev.to/theashraf/create-your-own-node-framework-38mi <p>I've created a simple node framework just to get the idea behind node frameworks like express.</p> <p>check the code in this repo.</p> <div class="ltag-github-readme-tag"> <div class="readme-overview"> <h2> <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--vJ70wriM--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://practicaldev-herokuapp-com.freetls.fastly.net/assets/github-logo-ba8488d21cd8ee1fee097b8410db9deaa41d0ca30b004c0c63de0a479114156f.svg" alt="GitHub logo"> <a href="https://github.com/theashraf"> theashraf </a> / <a href="https://github.com/theashraf/bare-node"> bare-node </a> </h2> <h3> A simple Node framework </h3> </div> <div class="ltag-github-body"> <div id="readme" class="md"> <h1> Simple Node framework</h1> <h2> what</h2> <ul> <li>A simple node framework with zero dependency</li> <li>An Express like framework that implements the middleware pattern</li> <li>For demonstration purpose only, not for production (maybe later)</li> </ul> <h2> why</h2> <p>To get the idea behind node frameworks specially express (the most popular node framework)</p> <h2> How</h2> <ul> <li>Middlewares handling is being implemented using the chain of responsibility pattern, check <code>lib/App.js</code> to see the implementaion details</li> <li>Extending the <code>http.ServerResponse</code> object functionality by adding some util method that make it easier to send response, it uses the builder pattern to build the response before sending it to the client, check <code>lib/Response.js</code> </li> <li>Adding <code>BodyParser</code> middleware that parse the request body by listening to the <code>http.IncommingMessage</code> on <code>data</code> event and keep concatinating the incomming buffer chunks until the <code>end</code> event fires, then it will call the next middleware after adding the <code>body</code> object to the <code>req</code> , so later we can access the body in our…</li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="gh-btn-container"><a class="gh-btn" href="https://github.com/theashraf/bare-node">View on GitHub</a></div> </div> javascript node