docs: explain middleware cascading a bit

hopefully this sort of makes sense, need that gif fixed
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TJ Holowaychuk 2013-12-18 22:41:27 -08:00
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app.listen(3000);
```
## Cascading
Koa middleware cascading in a more traditional way as you may be use to with similar tools,
this was previsouly not impossible - but difficult to make user friendly due to node's callbacks,
however with generators we can achieve "true" middlware. Contrasting Connect's implementation which
simply passes control through series of functions until one returns, Koa yields "downstream", then
control flows back "upstream".
The following example responds with "Hello World", however first the request flows through
the `x-response-time` and `logging` middleware to mark when the request started, then continue
to yield control through the to the response middleware. When a middleware invokes `yield next`
the function suspends and passes control to the next middleware defined. After there are no more
middleware to execute downstream, the stack will unwind and each middleware is resumed to perform
its upstream behaviour.
```js
var koa = require('koa');
var app = koa();
// x-response-time
app.use(function *(next){
var start = new Date;
yield next;
var ms = new Date - start;
this.set('X-Response-Time', ms + 'ms');
});
// logger
app.use(function *(next){
var start = new Date;
yield next;
var ms = new Date - start;
console.log('%s %s - %s', this.method, this.url, ms);
});
// response
app.use(function *(){
this.body = 'Hello World';
});
app.listen(3000);
```
## Settings
Application settings are properties on the `app` instance, currently