Introduction
After having tried out Servicestack it is time to try Nancy.
Nancy is a lightweight, low-ceremony, framework for building HTTP based services on .Net and Mono. The goal of the framework is to stay out of the way as much as possible and provide a super-duper-happy-path to all interactions.
Nancy has some nice docs and I like that.
And Nancy has a nice ecosystem and dedicated masters.
Hello world
Hello world should be easy enough. Just create an empty asp.net project and then add the nuget package. And some code.
As you can see Nancy has a buttload of packages on nuget.
We pick the Nancy.Hosting.AspNet for this one.
Interesting to note that there is also a self hosting one. I could have used that one for the easyhttp testing maybe.
That package adds this web.config for you.
xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!--
For more information on how to configure your ASP.NET application, please visit
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=169433
-->
<configuration>
<system.web>
<compilation debug="true" strict="false" explicit="true" targetFramework="4.5" />
<httpRuntime targetFramework="4.5" />
<httpHandlers>
<add verb="*" type="Nancy.Hosting.Aspnet.NancyHttpRequestHandler" path="*" />
</httpHandlers>
</system.web>
<system.webServer>
<validation validateIntegratedModeConfiguration="false" />
<handlers>
<add name="Nancy" verb="*" type="Nancy.Hosting.Aspnet.NancyHttpRequestHandler" path="*" />
</handlers>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
Now add a Class and inherit it from NancyModule.
```vbnet Imports Nancy
Public Class HelloModule Inherits NancyModule
Public Sub New()
MyBase.Get("/") = Function(parameters) "Hello World"
End Sub
End Class``` Run it and see the magic.
In essence you are looking at the root route and send it hello world when that route is requested.
So when I try another route than just http://localhost/ I will get a 404.
Cool.
Now I can just add that route, for instance http://localhost/plant
```vbnet Imports Nancy
Public Class HelloModule Inherits NancyModule
Public Sub New()
MyBase.Get("/") = Function(parameters) "Hello World"
MyBase.Get("/plant") = Function(parameters) "Hello Plant"
End Sub
End Class``` you will get this.
Now I know you should put each route into it’s own class, but spaghetti code is so much nicer.
Conclusion
It took me all of five minutes to get started, mainly due to the not being able to copy paste code. But it works as advertised. Maybe in the next post I will try the Self thing for the easyhttp tests.
Chris is awesome.
