Minimal overhead NodeJS REST server.

Insprired by the amazing throughput of NodeJS but dissappointed by the overhead of the available libraries I decided to hone my own.

There is a performance review available on codeproject review

The test suite is available on github at rest-stress

Install rapid-rest with npm

npm install rapid-rest 

The following call should be placed on your web facing server page.

 require('rapid-rest')

##Syntax The syntax is wholesale copy of the node-rest project which seems to have lost some of it's steam plus some smatterings of other REST syntaxes that I've used along the way.

Accept a GET request that has a single parameter in the path

routes('/there/:over_name')
 ('get', function(req, res, params){
 alert("You requested:" + params.over_name);
 });
routes.listen(port);

Accept a POST request with multiple parameter in the path

routes('/here/:here_name/:user')
 ('post', function(req, res, params, data){
 alert("You sent:" + JSON.stringify(data) + " to " + params.here_name + " for user: " + params.user);
 });

Accept a DELETE request with parameters defined in the path and with multiple required querystring parameters.

routes('/there/:where?here_name={here_name}&user={user}')
 ('delete', function(req, res, params){
 alert("You're deleting:" + params.where + " where here_name is " + req.query.here_name 
 + ", for user: " + req.query.user)
 });

##Future development

• Allow integration with middleware such as connect or express
• More tests