Building REST APIs with Node.js

Re:Building REST APIs with Node.js by chrisennis on Sunday January 27, 2013 @06:43PM (#5126236)

As someone who has built APIs on node+express, I love it for small lightweight API's that require very little processing beyond getting data from a database and returning it.

I have gone through much frustration though when I needed to use it for an API that required processing that only made sense to handle synchronously. At that point, it becomes less practical.

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Re:Building REST APIs with Node.js by general_failure on Sunday January 27, 2013 @07:28PM (#5126382)

For sync processing just use node modules - step or async. After all sync processing is a subset of async processing.

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Re:Building REST APIs with Node.js by ishbits on Sunday January 27, 2013 @08:11PM (#5126519)

Why would one use Express to a purely services based app instead of just using straight up node?

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Re:Building REST APIs with Node.js by nateweiss on Monday January 28, 2013 @12:35AM (#5127308)

Also consider using Connect (on which Express is built) as an in-between point. You get stuff like the Sinatra-style routing, but without the presentation-tier stuff like template support, etc. I've had good luck with it, FWIW.

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