node js using express and restify together in one app

Question

I am using restify building apis, it works great. But I need to render some web pages as well in the same application.

Is it possible I can use express and restify together in one application?

this is the code for restify server in app.js

var restify = require('restify');
var mongoose = require('mongoose');


var server = restify.createServer({
    name : "api_app"
});

server.use(restify.queryParser());
server.use(restify.bodyParser());
server.use(restify.CORS());
mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost/db_name');
server.get('/', routes.index);

server.post('/api_name', api.api_name);


server.listen(8000 ,"localhost", function(){
    console.log('%s listening at %s ', server.name , server.url);
});

how do I create express server in the same app.js?

Thanks

Answer 1

For all intents and purposes restify and express can't coexist in the same node process, because for unfortunate reasons, they both try to overwrite the prototype of the http request/response API, and you end up with unpredictable behavior of which one has done what. We can safely use the restify client in an express app, but not two servers.