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Tweens for Express
https://github.com/sharkcore/tweenz

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# tweenz

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A small library for writing [Express](https://expressjs.com/) middleware, inspired by
[Pyramid tweens](https://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/en/latest/narr/hooks.html#registering-tweens).

### Why?

This library does the following:

- Exposes the response body to the middleware (as part of `requestDetails`)
- Provides a first class API to allow middleware to safely execute code after the request has finished

_**Please Note!** This middleware stores the whole response body in memory. If you are returning particularly large responses, you should be aware of this._

## Getting started

```bash
yarn add tweenz
```

A tween in `tweenz` looks like this:

```js
export default () => {
// one-time configuration code goes here

return async (requestDetails, req, res) => {
// code to be executed for each request before
// the actual application code goes here

const details = await requestDetails;

// code to be executed for each request after
// the actual application code goes here
};
};
```

### Example

Here's a tween to calculate the time taken for a request to complete:

#### time-logger.js

```js
export default () => {
return async (requestDetails, req, res) => {
const startAt = process.hrtime();

// wait for request to complete
await requestDetails;

// calculate time taken for request
const [seconds, nanoseconds] = process.hrtime(startAt);
const miliseconds = seconds * 1e3 + nanoseconds * 1e-6;
console.log(`Request took ${miliseconds}ms to complete!`);
};
};
```

#### app.js

```js
import express from 'express';
import tweenz from 'tweenz';
import timeLogger from './time-logger';

const app = express();
app.use(tweenz(timeLogger()));

...
```

## API

### Registering tweens

```
tweenz(tween [, tween ...])
```

### Tween Callback

A tween is a callback, which will get executed with the following arguments

- **`requestDetails`**

An object of the following type:

```js
{
responseBody: string;
}
```

- **`req`**

[Express request object](http://expressjs.com/en/api.html#req)

- **`res`**

[Express response object](http://expressjs.com/en/api.html#res)