joshuathayer / connect

Connect is a middleware layer for Node.js

Connect

Connect is an extensible HTTP server framework for node, providing high performance "plugins" known as middleware.

Connect is bundled with over 14 commonly used middleware, including a logger, session support, cookie parser, and more. Be sure to view the 1.0 documentation.

1.0 Migration Guide

Connect 1.0 is a near-complete rewrite of Connect, with this comes some changes, including some (minor) API changes, and removal of a few middleware, which you are welcome to rip out of previous versions as third-party middleware.

Middleware Removed

• cache cached everything. This is less than ideal for dynamic apps, rendering this middleware relatively useless.
• conditionalGet blanketed all requests, requiring the entire response to be computed before a response could be concluded. This is extremely wasteful.
• staticGzip useless. gzip / ship assets to a CDN
• gzip buggy
• lint lame

Middleware Renamed

• staticProvider is now static
• bodyDecoder is now bodyParser
• cookieDecoder is now cookieParser

Middleware Added

• limit
• profiler
• responseTime

connect.createServer()

The connect.createServer() method is now optional, and equivalent to connect(). For example:

  connect.createServer(
      connect.logger()
    , connect.static(__dirname)
  ).listen(3000); 

is the same as:

  connect(
      connect.logger()
    , connect.static(__dirname)
  ).listen(3000);

When an options object is passed as the first argument it is assumed to be an https server:

  connect({ options here }
      connect.logger()
    , connect.static(__dirname)
  ).listen(443);

Charset

The charset is not longer forced via mime.type() resolution, now you must explicitly assign this via res.charset = 'utf8' etc.

Running Tests

first:

$ git submodule update --init

then:

$ make test

Authors

Below is the output from git-summary.

  project: connect
  commits: 1408
  files  : 100
  authors: 
    1184	Tj Holowaychuk
    191	Tim Caswell
      8	Astro
      5	Nathan Rajlich
      4	Jakub Nešetřil
      2	Aaron Heckmann
      2	Fabian Jakobs
      2	Jacques Crocker
      2	James Campos
      1	Jakub Nesetril
      1	Andreas Lind Petersen
      1	Joshua Peek
      1	Jxck
      1	Gregory McWhirter
      1	Eran Hammer-Lahav
      1	Bart Teeuwisse
      1	Guillermo Rauch

Node Compatibility

Connect < 1.0.0 is compatible with node 0.2.x

Connect >= 1.0.0 is compatible with node 0.4.x

License

View the LICENSE file.