express-service-bootstrap

This is a convenience package for starting a express based API server with

1. General API Security - (helmet based)
2. Health checks - K8S Health Probes
3. Process exits listeners - Your API server should shutdown as gracefully as possible when it receives any shutdown signals from OS.
4. Include your API documentation - Swagger UI express.
5. Singleton DI container - possibly the best pattern to follow, yet completely flexible and ignorable.
6. Creator pattern - don't use new keyword, this helps in writing better unit tests and mockable classes and features.

Getting Started

1. Please find example code usage in examples folder

import { ApplicationBuilder, ApplicationStartupStatus, ApplicationTypes, Convenience } from "../../dist/src/index.js";
import * as OpenApiDefinition from "./api-def.json" with { type: "json" };

const applicationName = "Test Simple App";
const app = new ApplicationBuilder(applicationName, OpenApiDefinition);
const utilities = new Convenience();

async function AppStartUp(rootRouter, DIContainer, application) {

    //Connect to DB or create DB Pool
    //Apply Migrations
    //Register Routes,Middleware,etc
    DIContainer.registerInstance("msg", { message: "Hello from DI" }); //Simulate things stored in DI container

    rootRouter
        .get("/", (req, res) => {
            res.send(req.DIProp.fetchInstance("msg").message);
        })
        .post("/", (req, res) => {
            console.log(req.body);
        })
        .get("/error", (req, res) => {
            throw new Error("This is an error to validate final 'ErrorResponseTransformer' error handling of library");
        });

    //Configure your application.
    const apiDocs = utilities.swaggerAPIDocs(OpenApiDefinition);
    application.overrideAppPort(8080)                                                                                            //override the default port 8080(Default 3000)
        .overrideHealthPort(8081)                                                                                                //override the default health port 8081(Default 5678)
        .registerApplicationHandler(utilities.helmetMiddleware(), "*", 1, ApplicationTypes.Both)                                 //register helmet middleware for both application and health
        .registerApplicationHandler(utilities.bodyParserURLEncodingMiddleware(), "*", 2, ApplicationTypes.Main)                  //register body parser url middleware for application
        .registerApplicationHandler(utilities.bodyParserJSONEncodingMiddleware({ limit: '50M' }), "*", 3, ApplicationTypes.Main) //register body parser json middleware for application
        .registerApplicationHandler(apiDocs.router, apiDocs.hostingPath, 4, ApplicationTypes.Main)                               //register api docs
        .registerApplicationHandler(utilities.injectInRequestMiddleware("DIProp", DIContainer), "*", 6, ApplicationTypes.Main) //register DI container middleware
        .overrideCatchAllErrorResponseTransformer((req, error) => ({                                                             //override the default catch all error response transformer
            path: req.path,
            status: 500,
            body: { message: error.message }
        }))


    return {
        status: ApplicationStartupStatus.UP,            // Indicates startup was successful
        data: { message: "Connected to database" }      // Additional data to be returned(Optional)
    };
}

app.overrideStartupHandler(AppStartUp)
    .start()
    .then(() => console.log(`${applicationName} started successfully.`))
    .catch(console.error);


//*******************************
// You can wait for your application to be called by process exit signal
// OR
// If you are done call the Dispose method to stop the application
// await app[Symbol.asyncDispose](); //stop the application and release all resources
//*******************************

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Contributions

1. New ideas/techniques are welcomed.
2. Raise a Pull Request.

License

This project is contribution to public domain and completely free for use, view LICENSE.md file for details.