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Routing restify app, the lazy way.

the furious dev — Sun, 22 Jul 2018 06:32:44 +0000

Hi, I've worked on restify and express few months ago, and I find it hassle to route my app in such way that I have to order them manual. So, I started working on a small tool that would sort routes for me and manage all of my middlewares.

Behold, restify-router-config.

It lets you handle various routing task in more efficient way e.g. (nested groups, middleware management, sorting routes based on wildcards)

Here's a simple usage example:

/**
 * Note that the goal of this snippet is to showcase the usage of the 
 * tool, code provided is not from actual project.
 */
const router = require('restify-router-config')
const restify = require('restify')

const server = restify.createServer()

const apiAuth = (req, res, next) => {
  console.log('authed!'); 
  next()
}

const loggingMW = (req, res, next) => {
  console.log(req._timeStart)

  next()
}

const logDone = (req, res, next) => {
  console.log('done!')

  next()
}


router(server, true) ([
  {
    group: 'api/v1',
    middleware: apiAuth,
    routes: [
      {
        match: '/hello',
        method: 'get',
        action: (req, res, next) => res.send('hello')
      },
      {
        group: 'users',
        middleware: [
          ['before', loggingMW],
          ['after', logDone]
        ],
        routes: [
          {
            match: '/:id',
            method: 'get',
            action: (req, res, next) => {
              res.send('hello')

              next()
            }
          },
          {
            match: '/:id/friends',
            method: 'get',
            action: (req, res, next) => {
              res.send('hello')

              next()
            }
          },
          {
            match: '/',
            method: 'get',
            action: (req, res, next) => {
              res.send('hello')

              next()
            }
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
])

server.listen(4000)

If you think this tool is useful or not, please let me know, I really think it's convenient but what do you guys think? BTW The usage shown from above is using restify, this tool is also compatible with express but some usage may vary.

Promise Explained like I'm 5.

the furious dev — Thu, 24 May 2018 09:11:30 +0000

This is based on my understanding of Promise, feel free to correct me if you think there's something wrong with my explanation :P

Now imagine yourself running an errand for your mom while she's out working. She told you two things:

Clean the house
Buy pizza for dinner

Your typical approach would be cleaning the house for whole day, afterwards go out of the house to buy some pizza. This process would take much time as you have to walk out of the house, wait in line just to get yourself some of that tasty pizza.

A better way we could have done it is, call a pizza guy, and tell him to have the pizza delivered at certain time, and clean the house afterwards.

What does it have to do with promise? You have executed the pizza task without have to wait for it, then you go clean the house, after some time, the pizza may have arrived at same time you have finished cleaning the house.

TL;DR: Promise is (as far as I understand it) executing whatever process you have but without having to wait for an actually result.

Journey Awaits

the furious dev — Sun, 11 Jun 2017 23:55:48 +0000

Hi Yakovmeister here,

You can find me on Twitter as @yakovmeister

I live in Cebu City, Philippines.

I work... do I?

I mostly program in these languages: PHP, JS.

I am currently learning more about C, ES6, etc.

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