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Reputation: 413

Node.js Rest Framework

I plan to write a rather large-scale web application using JavaScript. I believe I will be developing the webapp using CanJS to organize my client-side pieces.

I am strongly considering using Node.js for my server-side component, but I was wondering what the best way to set up Node to accept and handle REST requests. I did some Googling and came across something called Express. Any comments on this?

Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Upvotes: 8

Views: 3631

Answers (4)

deitch
deitch

Reputation: 14581

http://expressjs.com is the de factor standard, does Sinatra-like routing. If you want real easy automatic generation of resources (sort of Rails-style), try one of those libraries above.

If you want it real simple on top of express, try http://github.com/deitch/booster

Disclosure: I just released Booster this week.

Upvotes: 0

Florian Margaine
Florian Margaine

Reputation: 60717

restify is a node.js module built specifically to enable you to build correct REST web services.

http://mcavage.github.com/node-restify/

Express is more directed towards full web application (rendering HTML, etc). Restify is just for web services.

Besides, the guy who created Restify works at Joyent, the company where Ryan Dahl developped Node.js (which is kind of guarantee quality).

Upvotes: 15

JohnnyHK
JohnnyHK

Reputation: 311855

For REST request handling, express-resource is a more focused solution than railwayjs that's also built on top of expressjs.

Upvotes: 3

Jakub Oboza
Jakub Oboza

Reputation: 5421

You can try http://railwayjs.com/ it is build on top of http://expressjs.com/

Express is nice and fast :) railway has similar stack to ruby on rails.

Upvotes: 2

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