Shared Library

• The shared library contains codes that are used acrossed the microservices.
• The idea behind this was to prevent code duplication.
• The library is published as an npm package to github package registry.
• You need to publish this shared library to github package registry to be able to use it.

Steps required to publish your package

• Clone or download this repo
• Open the project in a terminal and remove .git folder from the package
  • On Unix, run rm -rf .git
  • On Windows, you can use git bash or show hiddens files
• Execute git init command inside the project.
• Create a personal access token on github.
• Export the token locally with key NPM_TOKEN.
• Keep the personal access token because it will be needed.
• In your .npmrc file, add

@<your-github-username>:registry=https://npm.pkg.github.com/<your-github-username>
//npm.pkg.github.com/:_authToken=${NPM_TOKEN}

• Replace <your-github-username> with your github username.
• In your Package.json file, add the value to the following fields
  • name: @<your-github-username>/<your-library-name>
  • author: <your-name>
  • url: git+<shared-library-github-url>.git
• You can update the dependencies and devDependencies.
• In the .github/workflows folder, replace <your-github-username> inside the publish.yml with your own github username.
• You can change the node-version to something higher.
• Create your own github project for the package.
• Push the code to github.
• Once you push, a github actions build will be triggered. If no error, your package will be published.

Import

Whenever you make any change to the shared library folder, make sure to increment the version number inside Package.json file.