Express: Dynamic routing

[zankhanarana9]

I am writing a simple server that calls default url '/', Get '/articles' , Post '/user' information and Put '/logout' requests.

Here is my code below

const http = require('http')
const express = require ('express');
const app = express();

const host = '127.0.0.1'
const port = 3333 || process.env.PORT

http.createServer(preprocess).listen(port, host)
console.log(Server running at http://${host}:${port})

function preprocess(req, res) {
let body = ''
req.on('data', function(chunk) {
body += chunk
})
req.on('end', function() {
req.body = body
console.log(body)
server(req, res)
})
}

function server(req, res) {
console.log('Request method :', req.method)
console.log('Request URL :', req.url)
console.log('Request content-type :', req.headers['content-type'])
console.log('Request payload :', req.body)

 const payload = serverResponse(req.url, req.body)
 res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json')
 res.statusCode = 200
 res.end(JSON.stringify(payload))

}

function serverResponse (reqType, reqData) {

var serverRes
//console.log(reqData);

switch(reqType) {
case '/' :
serverRes = { 'hello': 'world' }
break;

case '/articles':
  serverRes = {articles: [{id: 1, author: 'LMN', body: 'A post'} ,
      {id: 2, author: 'ABC', body: 'post 2'},
      {id: 3, author: 'XYZ', body: 'post 3'} ]}
  break;

  case '/user' :
    try {
        var data = JSON.parse(reqData);
        serverRes = {"username" : data["username"], "result":'success'}
        console.log("Server Response: " + serverRes)
      } catch(e) {
        return 'malformed request';
    }
    break;

  case '/logout' :
    serverRes = 'OK'
    break;

  default: break;

}
return serverRes;
}

I wanted to know if it is possible to have dynamic URL like for example "/user/name1", "/user/name2".

I know we can implement dynamic routing as below:

app.post('/user/:name' , function (req,res) { .... } );

I want to implement the server as http and hence, the workaround won't help. Any suggestions on how to have dynamic routing with expressjs and http?

[dougwilson]

So that would be a question for the node.js project if you are not using express.js. if you're using express then app.post('/user/:name' is how you do it. Otherwise you just have to write your own routing, at which point, just use express?