Opinionated, light-weight HTTP container for node.js. It brings a design by contract approach to Web API development.

Makes Web APIs arguably cheaper to write by allowing developers to focus on the business logic instead of non-functional requirements.

Installation

$ npm install -g tokio-rest

tokio-rest is supported in node v6+.

Hello World

Create a NPM module

$ mkdir hello-tokio
$ cd hello-tokio
$ npm init -y

Create an index.js file

const myProgram = {
  $do() {
    return 'Hello World!';
  }
};

module.exports = function myProgramFactory() {
  return myProgram;
}

Save it and, in your project folder, run

$ tokio-rest -m .

Point your browser to http://localhost:8080.

$ tokio-rest -m path_to_your_module

Install a process supervisor, e.g. nodemon

$ npm i -g nodemon

Run with supervisor, e.g. nodemon

$ nodemon -w path_to_your_module tokio-rest -m path_to_your_module

TODO

This project is the result of the collaborative work of

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