This is an example of a microservice application that implements a simple CRUD, built using Node.js + nact + gRPC.
The sole purpose of this project is to use bleeding-edge technologies to build a scaffold of a microservice, which should be by default:
- Safe
- Performatic
- Scalable
- Resilient
- Easy to build
- Easy to understand
- Easy to maintain
- Flexible
Every piece of technology used in this repository can help the developer (you!) to achieve the goals above, let's see how:
- Node.js provides a very powerful event-driven javascript runtime with a great balance between performance and memory footprint.
- Babel is used to compile the source code to run inside Node.js. The code used in this project is the modern JavaScript (ES7) with custom operators that enable easier and more idiomatic functional programming style.
- nact implements the actor model of the good ol' Erlang. This is a very efficient approach to handle concurrency of applications that are either stateful or stateless. Also, code decoupling comes for absolutely free.
- gRPC is a minimalist high-performance RPC framework. It uses protocol buffers, which are a great way to define type-safe requisitions and responses of microservices.
The text above is mostly opinionated and this example is not meant to be an silver bullet for everything. If some of this doesn't work for you, open an issue! Maybe we both can improve our knowledge :)
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.protodefinitions - Initial CRUD
- Tests
- Docker
- Travis CI