Koa version

[pspeter3]

I can imagine the desire for something supports the feathers service api but with Koa. Do you guys have thoughts on this?

[daffl]

Implementing the REST wrapper for Koa shouldn't be too hard I'd wait until ES6 makes it into Node stable though. Koa only works with 0.11 and the --harmony flag (for the generators). What would be interesting is to see how the Feathers high level concepts could benefit from ES6. Having things like Promises, Proxies and Classes baked in could definitely make things easier:

class TodoService {
  constructor (app, path) {
    this.app = app;
  }

  find (params) {

  },

  get (id) {
    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
      resolve({
        id: id,
        description: 'You have to do ' + id
      });
    });
  },

  create (data, params) {

  },

  update (id, data, params) {

  },

  patch (id, data, params) {

  },

  remove (id, params) {

  }
}

[pspeter3]

Yeah for sure, I'm excited for this future.

[Glavin001]

@pspeter3 you could make the Koa support as a Feathers Plugin? See generator-feathers-plugin. I have not used Koa before, but looking at its docs it looks like a great framework!

[safizn]

I wish you had Koa support. Its an amazing framework limiting it to Express isn't.
Thanks

[marshallswain]

@myuseringithub you can try using @daffl's comment to create an adapter. We haven't seen that Koa provides us with anything that we can't do with the current Express version, but if you see the need, please fill it. We will be as supportive of your work as we possibly can with what time we have.

[safizn]

Thanks @marshallswain , currently I won't use feathers. I think it adds an abstraction layer, that I don't like. I'm turning into building server with pure nodejs, as it gives more control. & I've implemented a simple version of CRUD REST API for Rethinkdb that fits my needs.
Would really like to see feathers as separated modules that are added as a supplement to the main server/app not a framework that should be extended and will end up being the app itself.
Still learning, maybe afterward will have a different view or would see more options.