Create Microservice

The easiest way to create a micro service.

Quickstart

• yarn create microservice <your-service-name>

Batteries included

• file system based router
• build tools for node 6 (github.com/zeit/micro#transpilation)
• livereload/pretty logs (zeit.co/blog/micro-8)

Building for node 6

• docker run -it -p 3000:3000 -v $(pwd):/repo:ro mhart/alpine-node:6 sh

... then inside the container ...

• # install git and curl
• apk update
• apk upgrade
• apk add git curl
• # setup project
• cd
• git clone /repo
• cd repo
• ls
• export PATH=$(npm bin):$PATH
• npm i

... server will fail until transpiled ...

• # prove service does not work
• npm start
• # transpile async/await in index.js
• mv routes src-routes
• async-to-gen --out-dir routes/ src-routes/
• # now start again in background
• npm start &

... then wait for service to start ...

• # prove service works!
• curl -w '\n' localhost:3000
• curl -w '\n' localhost:3000/lorem
• curl -w '\n' localhost:3000/lorem/3
• curl -w '\n' localhost:3000/echo?foo=bar&baz
• curl -w '\n' localhost:3000 -X POST
• curl -w '\n' localhost:3000 -X INVALIDMETHOD
• curl -w '\n' localhost:3000/invalidpath