NO MORE REST

No more rest calls! Call directly your backend APIs from EVERYWHERE! 🌍🚀

Simplify and boost your development process, with this small package you are allowed to integrate continuously your backend APIs and your client code directly.

With a smart generator that create in real time (with a -watch mode) a small proxy, you're able to call transparently your remote functions with all the support you need (intellisense, types, return types and more).

• revolutionizes the ways you develop as full stack developer
• Easy to use and batteries included

Table of Contents

1. Installation
2. Usage
3. Configuration
4. Dependencies
5. Examples

Installation

Install the package on the server project with npm i no-more-rest

Usage

Wrap your APIs and expose via express in this way

//server/myApi.js

export function doLogin(username, password) {
  return username == "admin" && password == "admin";
}

export function getLoggedUsers() {
  return ["Elon Musk", "admin"];
}

// server/server.js

import express from "express";
import { expose } from "no-more-rest";

import * as myApi from "./myApi";

const app = express();
expose(app, myApi);

app.listen(8000);

• Add this npm script to your package to generate the proxy script for the client from the exposed module

"scripts": {
   "sync-api": "no-more-rest --input myApi.js --output-dir ../your-client-path/ --watch"
}

• Import in the client your generated proxy and use it as if it were on your backend.

// client/index.js
import { doLogin, getLoggedUsers } from "./generatedProxy";

doLogin("admin", "admin")
  .then((result) => {
    if (result) {
      alert("Login success");

      getLoggedUsers().then((users) => {
        alert("The logged users are: " + users.join(", "));
      });
    } else {
      alert("Login failed");
    }
  })
  .catch(() => {
    alert("Network error");
  });

Configuration

The no-more-rest cli support these parameters

• --input - the file that exposes the functions
• --output-dir - The destination folder
• --typescript-output - Typescript output format
• --filename - Filename to generate
• --watch - Watch and generate the proxy file

Dependencies

Actually body-parser is a dependency on the server to be able to parse json body.

Examples

Here the first basic working example 💪🏽

1. basic-js

Development

Roadmap

• Javascript generator
• Proxy APIs
• Typescript generator
• Initialization command no-more-rest init for server and client
  • Server - Add "generate" script package.json
  • Server - Generate empty api.ts source
  • Server - Locate and generate config for client path
• Authorization example
• Plugin website