Mastodonte.js Core

A boilerplate for Node.js web applications.

Table of Contents

• Features
• Prerequisites
• Getting Started
• How It Works
• Contributing
• License

Features

• Accept microservices
• Parameters accessible in all app even for each microservice
• Flash notifications
• body-parser include by default
• HTTP compression
• SSL (optional)
• WebSocket server (optional)
• Node.js clusters support
• CSRF protection

Prerequisites

• MongoDB
• Node.js 7.0+
• Command Line Tools
•  Mac OS X: Xcode (or OS X 10.9+: xcode-select --install)
•  Windows: Visual Studio
•  Ubuntu /  Linux Mint: sudo apt-get install build-essential
•  Fedora: sudo dnf groupinstall "Development Tools"
•  OpenSUSE: sudo zypper install --type pattern devel_basis

Getting Started

# Install and save in your node project
npm i -S @mastodontejs/core

How It Works

In your node file server

const Core = require('@mastodontejs/core');

// Init with settings
const core = new Core({
  host: '0.0.0.0',
  port: 8000,
  mongodb: 'mongodb://localhost:27017/test',
  session: 'Your Session Secret goes here',
  viewEngine: 'html',
  views: 'views'
});

// Add some methods accessible in all application (optional)
core.addService('stringify', (arg) => JSON.stringify(arg))

// Add some routes
core.addRoute('get', '/', (req, res) => res.send('Hello').end())

// Add your microservices
const account = require('@mastodontejs/account')
core.add('account', account)

// Run server
core.run()

Settings

Key	Definition	Default
host	Define hostname server	0.0.0.0
port	Set port where run your server	8000
mongodb	Adress where located your mongodb database	mongodb://localhost:27017/test
session	Secret string session	Your Session Secret goes here
ssl	Create https server by defining two properties: key & cert	{}
viewsDir	Path views folder	views
viewEngine	Define view engine type	html
publicDir	Path public folder	public
services	List by key name of all middlewares	{}
ws	Define websocket server	false

API

add

Add a new microservice associate to a route.

Parameters

• appName (string) - Name of your microservice. This name become a route.
• appModule (function) - Settings as argument. Your logic microservice.

addRoute

Add a new route.

Parameters

• type (string) - HTTP Request type (delete | get | post | put)
• routePath (string) - Route path name
• cb (function) - Callback

addService

Add a new middleware/function accesible for all microservices.

Parameters

• name (string) - Name of your middleware
• fn (function) - Middleware function

run

Run your server with settings defined.

Contributing

If something is unclear, confusing, or needs to be refactored, please let me know. Pull requests are always welcome. Please open an issue before submitting a pull request.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014-2018 Olivier Monnier

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.