Simple Express.js Application Wrapper

This wrapper makes it very easy to construct a new instance of an Express.js web server application using HTTP or HTTPs.

Features include:

• Preloaded recommended headers (optional)
• Automatic 404 handling (optional)
• Compression (optional)
• Auto-parsing of request bodies
• WebSocket via additional method signature of .ws('path', (socket, request) => void)
• Auto-generation of development SSL certificates for the hostnames supplied and installing a development root CA into the host OS.
  • Note: This mode is NOT for production use
• Simple cloudflared support to spin up test tunnels using Cloudflare
  • Note: The public URLs will be randomly generated by Cloudflare

Documentation

https://gibme-npm.github.io/webserver/

Sample Code

import WebServer, { Logger } from '@gibme/webserver';

(async() => {
    const app = WebServer.create({
        autoStartTunnel: true
    });
    
    app.get('/', (request, response) => {
        return response.json({ success: true });
    })

    app.ws('/wss', (socket) => {
        socket.on('message', msg => {
            // simply echo the message back
            socket.send(msg);
        });
    });
    
    await app.start();
    
    Logger.info('Listening on: %s', app.localUrl);
    Logger.info('Listening on: %s', app.tunnelUrl);
    Logger.info('Listening on: %s', app.url);
})();
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