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bin/server.dart

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import 'package:angel/angel.dart';
 import 'package:angel_framework/angel_framework.dart';
 
 main() async {
-  Angel app = createServer();
+  Angel app = await createServer();
 
   runZoned(() async {
     await app.startServer(

lib/angel.dart

@@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
 /// Your very own web application!
 library angel;
 
+import 'dart:async';
 import 'package:angel_framework/angel_framework.dart';
 import 'src/config/config.dart' show configureServer;
 
 /// Creates and configures the server instance.
-Angel createServer() {
+Future<Angel> createServer() async {
   Angel app = new Angel();
 
-  app.configure(configureServer);
+  await app.configure(configureServer);
 
   return app;
 }

lib/src/config/config.dart

@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ import 'package:angel_framework/angel_framework.dart';
 import 'package:angel_mustache/angel_mustache.dart';
 import 'routes.dart';
 
-configureServer(Angel app) {
-  app.configure(loadConfigurationFile());
-  app.configure(mustache(new Directory('views')));
-  app.configure(configureRoutes);
+configureServer(Angel app) async {
+  await app.configure(loadConfigurationFile());
+  await app.configure(mustache(new Directory('views')));
+  await app.configure(configureRoutes);
 }

lib/src/config/routes.dart

@@ -7,14 +7,15 @@ import 'package:angel_static/angel_static.dart';
 /// Put your app routes here!
 configureRoutes(Angel app) {
   app.get('/', (req, ResponseContext res) => res.render('hello'));
-  app.get('*', serveStatic());
+  app.all('*', serveStatic());
 
-  app.on404 = (RequestContext req, ResponseContext res) async {
+  // 404 handler
+  app.after.add((RequestContext req, ResponseContext res) async {
     res.willCloseItself = true;
     res.status(404);
     res.header('Content-Type', 'text/html');
     res.underlyingResponse.write(
         await app.viewGenerator('404', {'path': req.path}));
     await res.underlyingResponse.close();
-  };
+  });
 }