Opine

Fast, minimalist web framework for Deno ported from ExpressJS.

Table of Contents

• Getting Started
• Installation
• Features
• Documentation
• Philosophy
• Examples
• Contributing
• License

Getting Started

import { opine } from "https://deno.land/x/opine@main/mod.ts";

const app = opine();

app.use((req, res) => {
  res.send("Hello World");
});

app.listen(3000);

Installation

This is a Deno module available to import direct from this repo and via the Deno Registry.

Before importing, download and install Deno.

You can then import Opine straight into your project:

import { opine } from "https://deno.land/x/opine@main/mod.ts";

If you want to use a specific version of Opine, just modify the import url to contain the version:

import { opine } from "https://deno.land/x/opine@0.14.0/mod.ts";

Or if you want to use a specific commit of Opine, just modify the import url to contain the commit hash:

import { opine } from "https://deno.land/x/opine@c21f8d6/mod.ts";

Opine is also available on nest.land, a package registry for Deno on the Blockchain.

import { opine } from "https://x.nest.land/opine@0.14.0/mod.ts";

Features

• Robust routing
• Focus on high performance
• Large selection of HTTP helpers including support for downloading / sending files, etags, Content-Disposition, cookies, JSONP etc.
• Support for static serving of assets
• View system supporting template engines
• Content negotiation
• Compatible with SuperDeno for easy server testing
• Supports HTTP proxy middleware with opine-http-proxy

And more to come as we achieve feature parity with ExpressJS.

Documentation

• Opine Docs - usually the best place when getting started ✨
• Opine Type Docs - Unavailable while awaiting GitHub’s support of alternatively named default branches.
• Opine Deno Docs
• ExpressJS API Docs
• License
• ExpressJS License
• Changelog

Philosophy

The Express philosophy is to provide small, robust tooling for HTTP servers, making it a great solution for single page applications, web sites, hybrids, or public HTTP APIs.

Opine will aim to achieve these same great goals, focussing first on developing robust tooling and features before moving onto accelerating performance and becoming super lightweight.

As time passes, Opine’s goals may naturally diverge from ExpressJS and this will be reflected here.

Examples

To run the examples, you have two choices:

1. Run the example using Deno directly from GitHub, for example:

   deno run --allow-net --allow-read https://raw.githubusercontent.com/asos-craigmorten/opine/main/examples/hello-world/index.ts

2. Clone the Opine repo locally:

   git clone git://github.com/asos-craigmorten/opine.git --depth 1
   cd opine

   Then run the example you want:

   deno --allow-net --allow-read ./example/hello-world/index.ts

All the examples contain example commands in their READMEs to help get you started for either of the above methods.

Contributing

Contributing guide

License

There are several third party modules that have been ported into this module. Each third party module has maintained it’s license and copyrights. The only exception is for Express, from which this entire module has been ported, whose license and copyrights are available at EXPRESS_LICENSE in the root of this repository, and cover all files within the source directory which not been explicitly licensed otherwise.

All modules adapted into this module are licensed under the MIT License.

Opine is licensed under the MIT License.

Icon designed and created by Hannah Morten.