Goal: Recreate an "Express" like framework using only:
- the "http.request" API described here: https://isomorphic-git.org/docs/en/http#implementing-your-own-http-client
- the Node "net" module
Rationale: This closely approximates what would be required to do git HTTP requests over a pure WebRTC stream
- start the server:
npm start - in another terminal, run
node client.js
The HTTP server should echo the response, but capitalized.
- In a browser, navigate to http://localhost:8081/hello.html
The HTTP server should serve an HTML page (represented as an array of Uint8Arrays in server.js), and a favicon image (represented as an async iterable stream via fs.createReadStream in Node.js >= 10).
- In a browser (or with cURL or whatever) open http://localhost:8081/hello/foobar
The HTTP server should return a text/plain message 'Hello, foobar!' to demonstrate that parsing and matching against path parameters in routes works.
A streaming parser means the data can be chopped arbitrarily in the transport layer.
A high-level async iterable API is exposed that is converted seamlessly to HTTP/1.1 chunked transfer-encoding to provide streaming control at the application layer.
An Express-like route registration API simplifies writing servers. Hopefully it can be quickly adapted to work over WebRTC and to work inside Service Workers.