HomebrewJS

Keywords: Raspberry Pi, RPi, NodeJS, webserver, open source.

A Flexible User Configurable NodeJS Web Server

By Dave Campbell

Abstract

NodeJS implements server-side JavaScript and supports development of application specific web servers. This code implements a flexible user-configurable web server platform with a number of embellishments over the basic NodeJS examples. These embellishments include, a reverse proxy for handling multiple servers/services on a single IP address, features and services defined by a user-configurable JSON file, and adaptable application based on user specified handlers loaded at startup.

The document A Flexible User Configurable NodeJS Web Server.docx and example configuration files provide additional details.

Changes

• Embellishments based on deployment of a fully functional shopping site
  • Upgraded database.js to data.js to also include get/post of files via recipes
  • added JSON to CSV module
  • Extended Notification to enable sending SMS/email messages from a webpage
• Fixed SafeJSON HTML routines
• Numerous bug fixes
  • A number of changes to WrapSQ3.find and WrapSQ3.store to improve robustness

To Do

• Fix proxy/websocket interaction
• Build a demo site
• Update documentation
• Cleanup and post VueJS components