Feature Requests

While the maintainers of restify work hard to provide the best possible
framwork for building REST services, there is more work to go around than there
are hours in the day. This document contains a set of features that have been
requested by the community. If you are looking to contribute, the items on
this list -- along with the open bugs on the issues tab -- are a great place to
start!

The features here are not sorted in any particular order. Each feature links
to the original GitHub issue requesting it. While feature requests are
generally closed and moved to this document, discussion around the feature
still takes place on the original issue. Even if there has been a discussion
on the issue already, it is still worth declaring your intent to open a PR
before investing time in writing code.

Code

• Support server.use(route, handler) and server.all
• Support asynchronous callbacks for throttle
• Streaming multipart parser without needing temporary files
• Default client to http protocol
• Exponential backoff and retry
• Arbitrary HTTP methods
• Detect route conflicts
• Improve upon next.ifError
• Benchmark suite
• HTTP/2 support
• Improve performance of route lookup
• Support HTTP_PROXY
• IE9 support for bodyParser
• Multipart Client Support
• Remove next(err)
• Support RegExp for route.render
• Run internal handlers on NotFound
• Support multiple apps on the same port
• Multiple versions for routes
• sysdig support
• Migrate routing DSL to path-to-regexp
• JQuery Style Query Expansion
• Support Proxy Protocol

Documentation

• Socket.io support
• uncaughtException handler when opting into domains
• Forward req_id
• Document bodyParser headers
• Improve signRequest documentation
• Better documentation for client.close
• Document all client options
• Client tunneling vs. proxying
• Explain why Restify is great!
• BasicAuth examples
• Document next behaviour
• Remove defaultResponseHeaders
• Properly document req.accepts
• Plugin custom errors
• findByPath on Router
• Multiple route handlers
• Update new HttpError codes
• v4 res.headers
• Document RegExp DSL for routing