dmarell / node-uservice

Node microservice template

Node.js Micro Service Template with Docker and MongoDB

Using Express 4.0 Router to build an API

Inspired from a tutorial

This app demonstrates various features related to continuous delivery

• Environment specific configuration
• Connection to mongodb with mongoose
• Unit and integration tests
• Runtime /version endpoint
• Docker and docker-compose examples
• Jenkins pipeline example deploying to Kubernetes cluster

Install and run locally

• Make sure you have node, npm and mongodb installed
• Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/dmarell/node-uservice.git
• Build: npm install
• Start mongo in a separate terminal window: mongod
• Start the server: npm start

Run integration tests

Start Mongo

Start the server:

$ npm start
...
Server is up on port 9090

Run integration tests:

$ npm run test:it

Test the API

Check signs of life:

$ curl localhost:9090
{"message":"Welcome to node-uservice API"}

$ curl localhost:9090/health
{"ok":true}

Add a bear:

$ curl --data 'name=Bamse' localhost:9090/bears
{"message":"Bear created! name: Bamse"}

Read bears:

$ curl localhost:9090/bears
[{"_id":"57ce7f864551911e00000001","name":"Bamse","__v":0}]