@devmoods/express-extras

Kubernetes-ready utilities for rapid Node.js application development

Extremely opinionated set of utilities for cranking out production-ready Node.js apps in a timely manner. We assume you are using PostgreSQL as the main database, Redis for data you don't want in Postgres and Faktory for background jobs.

• Only works with ECMAScript Modules (ESM)
• Thin layer on top of Express with better support for async/await
• PostgreSQL with transactions and migrations
• Redis
• Slack (and Discord) client for sending operational notifications
• CLI commands inspired by Django's management commands
• Delayed jobs with Faktory
• Validation of HTTP requests using JSON Schemas
• Logging helpers to write well-formatted contextual JSON logs to stdout
• Request local context using AsyncLocalStorage (e.g. request ids)
• RFC 7807 Problem Details for HTTP APIs by default
• Works best with the pnpm package manager
• Uses Sentry for external error monitoring
• Inspired by The Twelve-Factor App
  • Graceful shutdown
  • Read configuration from .env files

Goals

• Time-to-market

Non-goals

• Encourage deviating from the chosen path

Example

See the example/ folder for a complete example.

Configure

Put environment variables in .env at the application will automatically read those on startup. For test configuration in unit and integrations tests, use .env.test.