simple restify API server for answering XHR requests

server.es6

"use strict";

import restify from "restify";

const PORT = 8080;

export function main() {
  const server = restify.createServer({ name: "api" });

  server.use(restify.queryParser());
  server.use((request, response, next) => {
    response.header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
    response.header("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept");
    next();
  });

  server.get("/ping/:word", (request, response, next) => {
    const word = request.params.word;

    try {
      response.send({ pong: word });
    } catch (error) {
      response.send(error);
    }
    return next();
  });

  server.listen(PORT, () => {
    process.stderr.write("api listening on port " + PORT + "\n");
  });
}