A method that use koa in Rescript!

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When I started using rescript to do development, I wanted to write a demo http server with koa, but I didn’t find some rescript bindings for koa, there was an express binding in community just.
So I wrote the rescript-koa & rescript-koa-router bindings, by the way I can learn rescript more deeply.
welcome to give me corrections & issues. :innocent:
This is an example:

open Router
open Koa

let app = Koa.koa()

let router = Router.router(None)

router->get("/login", (context, next) => {
    context.body = "hello"
})

app->use(router->routes())

let _ = app->listen(8080, _ => {Js.Console.log("server is start success!")})

:partying_face:

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I know that nobody asked me, but I suggest using Fastify instead :new_moon_with_face:
Koa is good for todo apps, but for anything bigger it is a bad choice. Btw, Express is even worse.

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Thanks, I’ll try Fastify later :sunglasses:

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He’s secretly hoping you’d write bindings for fastify now haha.

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I’ll try in the future, I need to use it first :sob:

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You’ve exposed me :grin:

Actually I have them, but they are not in a state to be published.

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Care to expand on this a little? Just curious on why you think so

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  1. The biggest reason is the middleware architecture that I consider an anti-pattern (the way done in express). The request object is used as a dumpster for everything in an application, and you can never be sure what’s inside of it. Moreover, it will easily break when you change the order of middleware, with a lot of time for debugging guaranteed.

  2. The second reason is that Koa didn’t have a new version for already a year. Express does a little better, but still lacking. You can call it mature, but the problem is that the libraries have a very outdated core, and don’t support some modern NodeJs features. For example, a new option to manage the maximum requests a socket can handle, introduced in Node.js 16.10.0.

  3. Fastify has built-in support for JSON schema, which is used for request validation with Ajv, fast response serialization with fast-json-stringify, as well as documentation with OpenAPI.

  4. Fastify is fast Benchmarks.

I just don’t see any reason for me to use Express/Koa, the only advantage they have is that they are used in every beginner’s tutorial.

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I’ve just came across a good article about middlewares in a telegram channel.
https://insertafter.com/en/blog/no_more_middlewares.html

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Ah no you’re absolutely right about the middlewares, I’ve actually been spending some time the last few months refactoring them out of our codebase. Never thought to state it as a flaw of the library, though you’re absolutely right!