Connect

Connect is an extensible HTTP server framework for node, providing high performance "plugins" known as middleware.

Connect is bundled with over 14 commonly used middleware, including a logger, session support, cookie parser, and more. Be sure to view the 1.0 documentation.

1.0 Migration Guide

Connect 1.0 is a near-complete rewrite of Connect, with this comes some changes, including some (minor) API changes, and removal of a few middleware, which you are welcome to rip out of previous versions as third-party middleware.

Middleware Removed

• cache cached everything. This is less than ideal for dynamic apps, rendering this middleware relatively useless.
• conditionalGet blanketed all requests, requiring the entire response to be computed before a response could be concluded. This is extremely wasteful.
• staticGzip useless. gzip / ship assets to a CDN
• gzip buggy
• lint lame

Middleware Renamed

• staticProvider is now static
• bodyDecoder is now bodyParser
• cookieDecoder is now cookieParser

Middleware Added

• limit
• profiler
• responseTime

connect.createServer()

The connect.createServer() method is now optional, and equivalent to connect(). For example:

  connect.createServer(
      connect.logger()
    , connect.static(__dirname)
  ).listen(3000); 

is the same as:

  connect(
      connect.logger()
    , connect.static(__dirname)
  ).listen(3000);

When an options object is passed as the first argument it is assumed to be an https server:

  connect({ options here }
      connect.logger()
    , connect.static(__dirname)
  ).listen(443);

Charset

The charset is not longer forced via mime.type() resolution, now you must explicitly assign this via res.charset = 'utf8' etc.

Running Tests

first:

$ npm install -d

then:

$ make test

Authors

Below is the output from git-summary.

  project: connect
  commits: 1408
  files  : 100
  authors: 
    1184	Tj Holowaychuk
    191	Tim Caswell
      8	Astro
      5	Nathan Rajlich
      4	Jakub Nešetřil
      2	Aaron Heckmann
      2	Fabian Jakobs
      2	Jacques Crocker
      2	James Campos
      1	Jakub Nesetril
      1	Andreas Lind Petersen
      1	Joshua Peek
      1	Jxck
      1	Gregory McWhirter
      1	Eran Hammer-Lahav
      1	Bart Teeuwisse
      1	Guillermo Rauch

Node Compatibility

Connect < 1.0.0 is compatible with node 0.2.x

Connect >= 1.0.0 is compatible with node 0.4.x

License

View the LICENSE file.