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A 🎨 colourful fork of the amazing [HTTPure](https://github.com/citizennet/purescript-httpure) http server framework.
Coming from HTTPure? You might want to have a look at the [differences to HTTPure](#differences-to-httpure).
## ToC
1. [Installation](#installation)
1. [Quick start](#quick-start)
1. [Documenation](#documentation)
1. [Examples](#examples)
1. [Testing](#testing)
1. [Differences to HTTPure](#differences-to-httpure)
1. [License](#license)
## Installation
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spago install httpurple
```
## Quick Start
## Quick start
```purescript
module Main where
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## Documentation
See the [docs folder](./docs).
See the [docs folder](./docs) for more in-depth guides.
## Examples
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spago -x test.dhall test
```
## Differences to HTTPure
HTTPurple 🪁 is a fork of [HTTPure](https://github.com/citizennet/purescript-httpure) that I started to freely experiment with some ideas I have on improving the usage experience. Currently I have no intentions on back-porting any of it to HTTPure, as I don't have the time for it and also don't want to restrict myself.
If you have used HTTPure before, you'll probably want to go through the following changes to get started using HTTPurple 🪁.
### Routing-duplex
The most notable difference to HTTPure is that HTTPurple 🪁 uses the amazing [`routing-duplex`](https://github.com/natefaubion/purescript-routing-duplex) library for routing. I found the previous lookup-based routing tedious to work with, especially when having more complex routes, and quite error-prone, especially if you need reverse-routing for redirects.
[`routing-duplex`](https://github.com/natefaubion/purescript-routing-duplex) offers an elegant bidirectional routing which was initially designed for SPAs. Have a look at the really extensive [`documentation`](https://github.com/natefaubion/purescript-routing-duplex). The benefits of using routing-duplex are
* Much simpler and less tedious definition of routes
* Roundtrip printing/parsing of routes, so no more invalid redirects
* Exhaustive pattern matching so you are sure to match all defined routes
* Option to separate routes into logical groups
Here is a bit more elaborated examples:
```purescript
module Main where
import Prelude hiding ((/))
import Data.Either (Either(..))
import Data.Generic.Rep (class Generic)
import Data.Maybe (Maybe(..))
import Data.Tuple (Tuple(..))
import Effect.Console (log)
import HTTPurple (type (<+>), Request, ResponseM, ServerM, found', headers, ok, notFound, orElse, serve, (<+>))
import Record as Record
import Routing.Duplex (RouteDuplex', as, optional, print, root, segment, string)
import Routing.Duplex.Generic as G
import Routing.Duplex.Generic.Syntax ((/), (?))
import Type.Prelude (Proxy(..))
-- define the ADT representing your Api
data Route
= Home
| Profile String
| Account String
| Search { q :: String, sorting :: Maybe Sort }
derive instance Generic Route _
data Sort = Asc | Desc
derive instance Generic Sort _
sortToString :: Sort -> String
sortToString = case _ of
Asc -> "asc"
Desc -> "desc"
sortFromString :: String -> Either String Sort
sortFromString = case _ of
"asc" -> Right Asc
"desc" -> Right Desc
val -> Left $ "Not a sort: " <> val
sort :: RouteDuplex' String -> RouteDuplex' Sort
sort = as sortToString sortFromString
-- define the api routes
api :: RouteDuplex' Route
api = root $ G.sum
{ "Home": G.noArgs
, "Profile": "profile" / string segment
, "Account": "account" / string segment
, "Search": "search" ? { q: string, sorting: optional <<< sort }
}
-- example of a second api for meta information
data Route2 = Health
derive instance Generic Route2 _
meta :: RouteDuplex' Route2
meta = root $ G.sum { "Health": "health" / G.noArgs }
-- optionally define a custom notFoundHandler
notFoundHandler :: Request Unit -> ResponseM
notFoundHandler = const $ ok "Nothing to see here"
-- combine routes using `<+>`, combine routes using `orElse`
main :: ServerM
main = serve { port: 8080, notFoundHandler } { route: api <+> meta, router: apiRouter `orElse` metaRouter }
where
apiRouter { route: Home } = ok "hello world!"
apiRouter { route: (Profile profile) } = ok $ "hello " <> profile <> "!"
apiRouter { route: (Account account) } = found' redirect ""
where
-- to create a redirect just print the data constructor
redirect = headers [ Tuple "Location" $ print api $ Profile account ]
apiRouter { route: (Search { q, sorting }) } = ok $ "searching for query " <> q <> " " <> case sorting of
Just Asc -> "ascending"
Just Desc -> "descending"
Nothing -> "defaulting to ascending"
metaRouter { route: Health } = ok """{"status":"ok"}"""
```
### Startup options
HTTPurple 🪁 greatly simplifies the startup options and functions. The `serve`, `serve'`, `serveSecure` and `serveSecure'` have been merged into a single function `serve` that accepts listen options as the first parameter and uses sane defaults if you don't provide any.
The easiest way to start a server is to provide just the route and a router:
```purescript
main :: ServerM
main =
serve {} { route, router }
```
This will spin up the http server with sane defaults.
```bash
HTTPurple 🪁 up and running on http://0.0.0.0:8080
```
But you can overwrite any of the optional properties like this
```purescript
main :: ServerM
main =
serve {
hostname: "localhost"
, port: 9000
, certFile: "./Certificate.cer"
, keyFile: "./Key.key"
, notFoundHandler
, onStarted: log "Server started 🚀"
, closingHandler: NoClosingHandler
} { route, router }
where
notFoundHandler :: Request Unit -> ResponseM
notFoundHandler = const $ ok "Nothing to see here"
```
### Minor other improvmenets
* Default closing handler - A default closing handler is provided so you can just stop your server using `ctrl+x` without having to worry about anything. You can deactivate it by setting `closingHandler: NoClosingHandler` in the listen options.
## License
This is a fork of [HTTPure](https://github.com/citizennet/purescript-httpure), which is licensed under MIT. See the [original license](./LICENSES/httpure.LICENSE). This work is similarly licensed under [MIT](./License).