express/lib/express.js

/**
 * Module dependencies.
 */

var EventEmitter = require('events').EventEmitter;
var mixin = require('utils-merge');
var proto = require('./application');
var Route = require('./router/route');
var Router = require('./router');
var req = require('./request');
var res = require('./response');

/**
 * Expose `createApplication()`.
 */

exports = module.exports = createApplication;

/**
 * Create an express application.
 *
 * @return {Function}
 * @api public
 */

function createApplication() {
  var app = function(req, res, next) {
    app.handle(req, res, next);
  };

  mixin(app, proto);
  mixin(app, EventEmitter.prototype);

  app.request = { __proto__: req, app: app };
  app.response = { __proto__: res, app: app };
  app.init();
  return app;
}

/**
 * Expose the prototypes.
 */

exports.application = proto;
exports.request = req;
exports.response = res;

/**
 * Expose constructors.
 */

exports.Route = Route;
exports.Router = Router;

/**
 * Expose middleware
 */

exports.query = require('./middleware/query');
exports.static = require('serve-static');

/**
 * Replace removed middleware with an appropriate error message.
 */

[
  'json',
  'urlencoded',
  'bodyParser',
  'compress',
  'cookieSession',
  'session',
  'logger',
  'cookieParser',
  'favicon',
  'responseTime',
  'errorHandler',
  'timeout',
  'methodOverride',
  'vhost',
  'csrf',
  'directory',
  'limit',
  'multipart',
  'staticCache',
].forEach(function (name) {
  Object.defineProperty(exports, name, {
    get: function () {
      throw new Error('Most middleware (like ' + name + ') is no longer bundled with Express and must be installed separately. Please see https://github.com/senchalabs/connect#middleware.');
    },
    configurable: true
  });
});