express-module-server is a middleware component for expressjs which allows you to serve javascript modules and their dependencies in one big go. Any additional components that need to load after the fact can be loaded without having to resend dependencies.
This work implements google's module-server and provides nice express candy so you don't have to deal with all the funk.
Basic Express Server with express-module-server middleware:
var express = require('express'),
app = express(),
server = require('http').createServer(app),
expressModuleServer = require('express-module-server');
app.configure('development', function() {
app.use(expressModuleServer({
// Below are defaults provided by the module
path: "/_js/", // Path that concatenated js will be requested
mapPath: "/_sourceMap/", // Path for requesting source maps
srcPath: "/_source/", // Path to get source js
srcDir: "client/src", // Local path of source scripts
srcMap: "/module-graph.json", // Local path of dependency layout
mapDir: "client/maps", // Local path of generated source maps
sourceMaps: true, // should we enable source mapping
debug: false, // should debugging be turned on
demo: false // enables serving of demo.html
}));
});
app.get('/',function (req, res, next) {
res.send(200, 'Hello World');
})
app.listen(1337)To run the demo simply type the following in your commandline:
sudo npm install -g express-module-server && express-module-server
And now open this link: http://127.0.0.1:1337
More documentation to come. (Above documentation assumes knowledge of module-server's demo-server.js)