A FastCGI web framework in Chicken Scheme, based on the API of Express for Node.js.
Plenty is missing right now and some parts will likely not make it in at all, but I hope to end up with a solid framework for building future Chicken web apps.
A few modules are required which can be installed with chicken-install, as well as Chicken itself. Notable modules are:
- protobj
- uri-common
- matchable
- fastcgi
- base64 (for
middleware-favicon) - colorize (for the example)
A small example is included as example.scm. You can run this with:
CHICKEN_ENV=development ./example.scm
This will start a simple FastCGI server at port 3000 by default. The port can be changed by doing:
CHICKEN_ENV=development ./example.scm --port <port>
Alternatively the framework is designed to be compatible with shared socket managers such as Einhorn by passing a file descriptor instead of port:
CHICKEN_ENV=development einhorn -c chicken-express ./example.scm --fd srv:127.0.0.1:3000,so_reuseaddr
This allows you to add/remove workers at runtime. I am also planning on Circus support, but it is not currently working due to some file descriptor issues.
The hello world should feel familiar to anyone that has used Express:
#!/usr/bin/csi -script
(load "chicken-express.scm")
(import chicken-express)
(load "middleware/logger.scm")
(import middleware-logger)
(define app (chicken-express))
{@app.use (middleware-logger)}
{@app.get "/" (lambda (self request response next)
{@response.send "Hello, world!"})}
{@app.listen 3000}
This module (chicken-express.scm) is using protobj for its objects, and so the API currently uses its macros as well.
Things starting with "%" (variables, methods, etc) are internal to the module. Everything else is in theory a part of the public API exposed by the module.
To understand the code, start at the (chicken-express) method, followed by (! <app> listen) further down, and go from there.
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