NodeJS cassandra storage

Description

A Cassandra DB storage abstraction to be used as a backend in nodejs projects. This library also provides an Express JS middleware to easily store/cache HTTP responses.

Usage

Install from main git branch:

> npm install https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/content-transform/nodejs-cassandra-storage/-/archive/main/nodejs-cassandra-storage-main.tar.gz

Local development environment

Dependencies:

When using local nodejs for development:

• nodejs (CI is using node18)
• docker/docker-compose (required for backing cassandra instance)

When using a fully docker based setup:

• docker/docker-compose

Local nodejs based setup

• Start development cassandra instance (initialization might take some time)

> docker compose up -d cassandra
# Wait until cassandra STATUS is healthy (DB is ready for connections)
> docker compose ps cassandra

• Install js dependencies

> npm install

• Run linter

> npm run lint

• Run automatic linting/formatting fixes

> npm run lint:fix

• Run tests

> npm run tests

Docker based setup

• Get shell access to a nodejs container:

> docker compose -it run tests bash

Then you can use the same npm commands as described in the previous section.

• Running the tests suite

> docker compose run tests

Middleware

An example of a simple ExpressJS app using the storage middleware can be found under ./examples/middleware.

JSDocs

To generate the API documentation:

> npm run env -- jsdoc -c ./jsdoc.json  lib

HTML output is rendered in ./out