README.md

httpjs

An API prototyping tool running in your browser

Building and running

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First, client establishes a websockets connection with the backend:

var socket = io.connect('http://httpjs.net');

Then emits a register message to the backend:

socket.emit('register', {});

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The backend, when receives a register message, returns with a registered response:

socket.emit('registered', {
	url: 'http://' + x + baseURL
});

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When the backend receives an incoming HTTP Request on http://xxx.httpjs.net, the backend is emitting a request message to the frontend:

var msg = {
	query: req.query,
	ip: req.ip,
	host: req.host,
	body: req.body,
	path: req.path,
	url: req.url,
	headers: req.headers,
	method: req.method,
	index: msgKey
};
var msgKey = randomValueHex(6);
this.messageQueue[msgKey] = {};
this.messageQueue[msgKey].request = msg;
this.messageQueue[msgKey].req = req;
this.messageQueue[msgKey].res = res;
this.messageQueue[msgKey].socket = socket;

socket.emit('request', msg);

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When the frontend receives an request message, it routes it runs the process(req, response, ready) function from the editor. When the process function calls the ready() callback, the frontend, sends back the a response message.

socket.emit('response', {
	"index": req.index,
	"response": response
});

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When the backend receives the response message it sends a response back to the client, and emits a response message back to the frontend:

var rmsg = {
	'headers': msg.res._header,
	'rawbody': rawbody,
	'index': msgKey
	// 'r': msg.res
};
msg.socket.emit('response', rmsg);