ASasadlionpk·Feb 26, 2019
Can you give me an example of a rewrite? Zero already does some rewrites:
https://github.com/remoteinterview/zero#route-rewrites
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Wow, I love that people can wrap express and many of its components and end with something so different from its foundation. That being said, this level of "batteries included"…
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7 sourcesThis should help: https://github.com/remoteinterview/zero#running-on-cloud
In Show HN: Zero – A fast, zero-configuration server for React, Node.js, MarkdownIt actually has a ton of magic. This is what's acting as the initial package.json:
https://github.com/remoteinterview/zero/blob/72ea1faaef51b92...
Custom file watcher: https://github.com/remoteinterview/zero/blob/72ea1faaef51b92...
Routing / workers: https://github.com/remoteinterview/zero/blob/72ea1faaef51b92...
Dependencies for using the react renderer: https://github.com/remoteinterview/zero/blob/72ea1faaef51b92...
And so on. The routing part is a bit funny - by spawning a new process per request this is actually very close to PHP/CGI :)
In Show HN: Zero – A fast, zero-configuration server for React, Node.js, MarkdownSeems like your fix[1] for this is a bit fast. You are already importing `path` in that file. Also, you can do this with just one `path.relative`. Lastly, the url package method you are using is deprecated[2].
[1] https://github.com/remoteinterview/zero/commit/b4af5325c388e...
[2] https://nodejs.org/api/url.html#url_legacy_url_api
In Show HN: Zero – A fast, zero-configuration server for React, Node.js, MarkdownOh, never spotted this: https://github.com/remoteinterview/zero#running-on-cloud
Oops.
Couldn't see it on the main docs site (https://zeroserver.io/)
In Show HN: Zero – A fast, zero-configuration server for React, Node.js, MarkdownWow, I love that people can wrap express and many of its components and end with something so different from its foundation. That being said, this level of "batteries included" approach has a cost.
In this example, it is the complexity of this file[1] and the fact that if you were to write this as a single express middleware you could probably write it in less than 20 lines.
Guess this is just not my cup of tea?
[1] https://github.com/remoteinterview/zero/blob/master/packages...
Edit: also looks like the author decided to wrap their own multi process model? https://github.com/remoteinterview/zero/blob/master/packages...
In Show HN: Zero – A fast, zero-configuration server for React, Node.js, MarkdownLooking through the code on github found a .py file handler in the works: https://github.com/remoteinterview/zero/blob/master/packages...
Any idea of a timeline on this feature? I think it could be really awesome to be able to prototype with python in addition to js.
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