quick is a web server implementation for the dart programming language. It is heavily inspired by lvivski's start (which is unfortunately not developed anymored) and the spray webframework for scala.
quick features the directive concept: A directive is something that handles a stream and may also produce a streams. Imagine your webserver being a tree: The request stream first meets the root directive. This directive may then decide to handle the request or to transform it and output it in its own stream. This stream is then passed onto the children of this directive and is handled by the first directive that matches. That may sound a bit abstract but see the usage in the following example.
To install quick, you need to depend on it in your pubspec.yaml. Therefore,
add the following:
dependencies:
quick: ">=0.0.2 < 0.1.0"Then in your code, import it as follows:
import 'package:quick/quick.dart';quick focuses on fast startup and a fast learning experience considered that it is quite similar to spray.
To start, first create a directive. Then pass this directive to the creation of a server which can then be started on a specified port and host.
Additionally, quick comes with some predefined middleware such as json, urlencoded and text body parsers, logging middleware and error handlers.
An example of using quick can be seen below:
main() async {
final route =
logRoute - (
get - (
path("/ping")
.listen((Context ctx) => ctx.complete("pong")) %
path("/pong")
.listen((Context ctx) => ctx.complete("ping")) %
always((Context ctx) => ctx.complete("Not found"))
) %
always((Context ctx) => ctx.complete("Other methods not supported"))
);
final app = new Server(route);
app.start().then((_) {
print("Listening");
});
}Contributions are always appreciated. When contributing, pull requesting or else, please think about writing tests.