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Express Microservice Boilerplate

An express-based bootstrapping module for building microservices with Node JS. The boilerplate comes with preloaded components to get you started quickly to focus business logic code. We have been using this boilerplate for some time on production to run many of our node js microservices.

Preloaded Component

Prerequisites

You will need the following things properly installed on your computer.

Installation

  • git clone <this-repository-url>
  • change into the new directory
  • npm install

Running / Development

  • npm run dev

Boilerplate comes with below in-built routes

Default - Default for demo
Visit http://localhost:8080/v1/default

Health check - Can be used for adding a service health check logic
Visit http://localhost:8080/v1/default

Pug demo - templating integration https://pugjs.org/api/getting-started.html
Visit http://localhost:8080/v1/pug_demo

Mongo - Mongo for demo
Visit http://localhost:8080/v1/mongo_demo

Redis - Redis for demo
Visit http://localhost:8080/v1/redis_demo

Build

npm run build

Uses Gulp Gulp for TypeScript build

FOLDER STRUCTURE

config
└───prod
│   prod_config
└───test
│   test_config
└───uat
│   uat_config
deployment
locales
│   english-us
logger
│   winston-logger-setup  
src
└───boot
│   └───initializers
│         initializer-1
│         initializer-2
│         ...
│   boot-file
└───controllers
│     controller-1
│     controller-2
│     ...
└───middlewares
│     middleware-1
│     middleware-2
│     ...
└───models
│     model-1
│     model-2
│     ...
└───routes
│     route-1
│     route-2
│     ...
└───services
│     service-1
│     service-2
│     ...
└───utils
│     util-1
│     util-2
│     ...
└───tests
│     test-1
│     test-2
│     ...

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