Amazing Epic Server

app.js

const http = require('http');
const { createApp, send } = require('epic-server');

/**
 * Create your epics.
 * type Epic = (req$: Observable<Request>, ...dependencies: any) => Observable<Response>
 * type of Request and Response TBD. Will related to nodes (req, res) objects
 * passed to the handler in createServer.
 */

const create = (rec$, { db /* Any helpers could go here */ }) =>
  rec$.post('/users/new')
    .mergeMap(req =>
      db.users.insert(req.body)
        .map(user => send(user))
        .catch(err => send(err, { status: 500 })))

const read = (rec$, { db }) =>
  rec$.get('/users')
    .mergeMap(req =>
      db.users.findAll()
        .map(users => send(users))
        .catch(err => send(err, { status: 500 })))

// const update = (req$) => ...
// const del = (req$) => ...

const userCrudEpic = combineEpics(create, read /*, update, del */);

const epic = combineEpics(
  userCrudEpic,
  // Other epics...
);

// Import any dependencies
const db = require('./db');

// Create the app (Magic!). Depdencies are injected into epics
const app = createApp(epic, { db });

// Everything else is as you would expect
const server = http.createServer(app);

server.listen(3000, () => console.log('Listening at localhost:3000'));

Both of your examples still are route first, though. Yes, while middleware doesn't care about routes, most servers are mainly routes, not middleware. Route agnostic middleware are usually very few on a back end.

I guess I don't know what you mean by route first then. Your right, my examples are pretty much all routes and this is probably the case for most peoples servers. But to me this API (get,post,etc) feels pretty simple to work with and similar to express. The helper methods on top of the observable are just a filter function just like ofType in redux-observable. I.e. req$.filter(req => req.url === '/some/path' && req.method === 'GET').

I supposed the short answer is that I like the way epics work in redux-observable on the front end, and was hoping to bring a similar API to the stream of all requests hitting the server.