restify is a module for use with node.js that facilitates the creation of REST web services.
resitfy enables developers to create a REST web services API on top of node.js. restify borrows from the express web application framework.
Questions tagged [restify]
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mongoError: Topology was destroyed
I have a REST service built in node.js with Restify and Mongoose and a mongoDB with a collection with about 30.000 regular sized documents.
I have my node service running through pmx and pm2.
Yesterday, suddenly, node started crapping out errors…
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passport.js RESTful auth
How does one handle authentication (local and Facebook, for example) using passport.js, through a RESTful API instead of through a web interface?
Specific concerns are handling the passing of data from callbacks to a RESTful response (JSON) vs using…
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Why should I use Restify?
I had the requirement to build up a REST API in node.js and was looking for a more light-weight framework than express.js which probably avoids the unwanted features and would act like a custom-built framework for building REST APIs. Restify from…
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Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND in nodejs for get call
I am running a web server on node the code for which is given below
var restify = require('restify');
var server = restify.createServer();
var quotes = [
{ author : 'Audrey Hepburn', text : "Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm…
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Difference between response.send and response.write in node js
I have written a small API which uses the Node js "restify" framework. This API receives a request (actually anything after "/") and then send that request to another server. Get the response back from server and passes the response back to original…
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How can I support cors when using restify
I have a REST api created with the restify module and I want to allow cross-origin resource sharing. What is the best way to do it?
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What's the best practice for MongoDB connections on Node.js?
This is something that is a bit unclear to me (I'm just getting started with Node and Mongo), and it really concerns me because of server performance and strain (which I guess is another question, but I'll get to that at the end of the post).
So,…
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Serving static files with restify
I am learning to use Node.js. Currently, I have a folder structure that looks like the following:
index.html
server.js
client
index.html
subs
index.html
page.html
res
css
style.css
img
profile.png
js
page.js
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How to parse/read multiple parameters with restify framework for Node.JS
Scenario: We developer are trying to replace a web service (written in C#.Net) with Node.JS Restful API.
Issue: Now we need to handle the incoming request as is (we don't have control over it). So the following is the format of the incoming…
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serving static files with restify (node.js)
I have the following code:
app.js
[...]
server.get(/\/docs\/public\/?.*/, restify.serveStatic({
directory: './public'
}));
server.listen(1337, function() {
console.log('%s listening at %s', server.name, server.url);
});
And I have the…
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how do you send html with restify
I want to send plain html instead of a json response for one of my routes in restify. I tried setting the contentType and header property of the response but it doesn't seem to set the contentType in the header (the browser tries to download the…
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Application 'appname' failed to start (port 8080 not available) on open shift node app
I have written a node restify server in coffee and I can't seem to get it running.
While deploying I get the following error:
Waiting for application port (8080) become available ...
after which I do get the following error
Application 'appname'…
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Creating an OAuth2.0 service provider using RESTify Node.js
I have a restful API that I built using node.js and node-restify. I am up to the part where I have to secure it. Apparently, it is easy to find out how to use OAuth 2.0 as a client but hard to find out how to set up a provider. I guess my google…
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I need to replace Bearer from the header to verify the Token
bearer = bearerHeader.replace("Bearer","");
jwt.verify(bearer, 'super_secret', function (err, decoded) {
console.log(err);
console.log(decoded);
});
Here is my code. Whenever I try to verify Token. I want to replace Bearer from header to…
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How to avoid fast memory increase during scavenge gc?
I have an application built on restify. I have no memory leaks, however I have big memory growth during scavenge gc, then comes heavy weight mark-sweep gc and cleans the memory.
It affects performance of my application.
[2268] 266859 ms: Scavenge…
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