node-cluster-app

#Basic nodejs application using cluster

Install

npm install node-cluster-app

##Usage:

var ClusterApp = require('node-cluster-app')

var app = new ClusterApp({
  workers: 2,
  timeout: 2000,
  restart: true,
  evlog:   false
})
app.init('worker.js')
app.start()

Also view sample app in the examples directory

##Constructor options

• workers - workers number (default: cpu number)
• timeout - timeout for timeout event
• restart - automatically restart died workers
• evlog - log native cluster events to console

##Methods ClusterApp is EventEmitter, so we have all it methods as emit, on etc.

• init - assign worker
  • worker - path to worker's js file
• start - forks neccessary number of workers
• stop - kill all workers
• restart - Sequentially run of stop and start
• setEvlog - Set mode of logging all inherited from cluster events by util.log
  • value - boolean value(default: false)

##Events ClusterApp reemitted all native cluster events:

• fork - new worker forked
• online - worker become online
• listening - worker become listen
• disconnect - worker disconnect
• exit - worker exited
• setup - cluster setupMaster was executed

Also it has a number own events:

• timeout - Emited on worker not emit listen event longer than timeout value
  • worker - Worker object
  • timeout - Value of applied timeout in ms
• start - Emited on app started
• stop - Emited on app stopped
• noworkers - Emitted on last worker exit
• log - worker initiate log action
  • msg - message by worker provided

Worker API

Worker is a simple nodejs executable. It can to talk with a ClusterApp throw standard process.send(msg) mechanism Commands transferred by msg.actions param For now supports next commands:

• stop - Initiate stopping of the ClusterApp
• restart - Initiate restarting of the ClusterApp
• log - Transfer some data to ClusterApp log event
  • msg - Provided data For details you can review sample httpworker in /tests directory of this repo