pure-http

Installation

$ npm install --save pure-http

Usage

Basic server:

const pureHttp = require('pure-http');

const app = pureHttp();

app.get('/', (req, res) => {
  res.send('Hello world');
});

app.listen(3000);

Exist server:

const http = require('http');
const pureHttp = require('pure-http');

const server = http.createServer();

const app = pureHttp({ server });

app.listen(3000);

Secure server:

const https = require('https');
const pureHttp = require('pure-http');

const server = https.createServer({
  key: ...,
  cert: ...,
});

const app = pureHttp({ server });

app.listen(3000);

Options

• server: Allows to optionally override the HTTP server instance to be used

  Default: undefined.

• onError: A handler when an error is thrown.

  Default: ((error, req, res) => res.send(error)).

• onNotFound: A handler when no route definitions were matched.

  Default: ((req, res) => res.send("Cannot " + req.method + " " + req.url)).

Router

const { Router } = require('pure-http');

const router = Router();

router.get('/', (req, res) => {
  res.send('Hello world');
});

/* ... */

const app = require('pure-http');

app.use('/api', router);

app.listen(3000);

Benchmark

Results are taken after 1 warm-up run. The tool used for results is the following:

$ wrk -t8 -c100 -d30s http://localhost:3000/user/123

Please remember that your application code is most likely the slowest part of your application! Switching from Express to pure-http will (likely) not guarantee the same performance gains.

Framework	Version	Requests/sec
pure-http	latest	36,012
polka	0.5.2	35,538
Fastify	3.8.0	17,576
express	4.17.1	15,025