Prick.js

A simple web framework for Node.js

There's example.js for you to checkout and the there code is documented.

• import prick

  var prick = require('prick');

• create a new prick

  var app = new prick(); // skipping the new keyword is ok too

• Start pricking urls

  app.forPath("/xyz", function(request, response){
      response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type":"text/html"})
      response.write("<h1>hello world</h1>");
      response.end();
  });

• Incase of a regex url pass a regex object and a match is passed to your callback

  app.forPath("/xyz", function(request, response, match){
      response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type":"text/html"})
      response.write("the match is "+ match);
      response.end();
  });

404s are handled based on unfinished responses, so if you leave a request unended... i'll threaten you with a 404 :)

Right now there's no default headers. So this damn thing sounds lengthy. I'll fix this soon.

TODO

• helpers to set headers and status code
• Static file handlers
• WebSocket support (via Faye)
• Session and cookie support
• Dependency management

Until then take a look at example.js for some goodness :)

Happy message

I'm happy coz I can say...

"dude, I wrote a web framework".

Ok seriously, I wrote this because I wanted to learn how frameworks worked and I needed a nice little framework to handle static files too (easily). Haven't reached that milestone, but soon will.