Ἀψίνθιον. A highly integrated, advanced, extensible and cluster-ready server.

Absinthe is a pure and beautiful boilerplate to kickstart web-app development. Absinthe is released under non-restrictive conditions and is extremely extensible. It is an abstraction of some of our core technologies and may be considered mature. It sports in-flight compression (gzip, deflate), stream caching and a hilarious performance.

As the HTTP port is below 1234, Absinthe has to be run with root-priviliges.

Clone Absinthe, setup using npm install and you're ready to go. Absinthe is appropriate as a static server if you plan to only deliver plain websites; fill up /static with your content and go crazy. If you plan on extending Absinthe according to your needs, read on.

controller [kəntrolər]. Extensions which serve data and may include logic routines.
logic [lɑdʒɪk]. Extensions which do not serve data and exclusively contain logic routines.

We've included an example controller and an example logic. If you fire up the server right now and head to "/start" you'll be greeted by some sweet Hello World! sugar. This is served by a controller referencing a routine inside a logic.

When you fire up Absinthe, it searches for both controllers under /controllers and logic under /logic. Logics can arbitrarily export any kind and type of data and functions. The same applies to controllers with the exception that they have to export both a paths map (an array) which includes all paths (e.g. /start, /messages et al.) to which the controller applies to. Every controller exports a handler function which is called with the servers request and response; the third parameter is a sugar for request.url.

You can talk to any controller or logic with controller.* and logic.*, whereas the filename specifies the name under which an extension is registered internally. (e.g. start.js will be namespaced as controller.start.*)

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