Redux-powered server & middleware for predictably handling requests with immutable responses.
Over the past several years, I've bounced between Express, Koa, Hapi, and finally back to Express for my server needs.
With React, React Router, & GraphQL, the server has become increasingly simple.
Unfortunately, the majority of middleware rely on clobbering objects & references (e.g. monkey-patching res.send, mutating objects req.session, adding to res.locals, etc.) just to send a request.
In fact, if a middleware calls res.send, other middleware have to hijack it with their own version just to intercept the response!
This approach allows for the response object to be handled dynamically, allowing for several scenarios:
- Universal API calls on both the client & server.
- Responding to various errors differently.
- Short-circuiting the dispatch with a redirect.
- Rendering the payload as JSON, HTML, or even Markdown.
- Hooking into the payload for tracking events.
- Simpler
responseobject for logging & debugging.
More to come