express-gateway

1.16.3 • Public • Published 4 days ago

A Microservices API Gateway Built Using Express.js and Express Middleware

Express Gateway is a microservices API gateway that sits at the heart of any microservices or serverless architecture, regardless of what language or platform you're using.

Express Gateway secures your microservices and serverless functions and expose them through APIs using Node.js, Express and Express middleware.

Developing cloud native applications, orchestrating and managing them now can be done insanely fast all on one seamless platform without having to introduce additional infrastructure.

Website Getting Started Docs

Main Features

Microservices and Serverless QoS Proxy and Security
Built Entirely on JavaScript/Node.js using Express and Express Middleware
Dynamic Centralized Config
API Consumer and Credentials Management
Plugins and Plugin Framework
Distributed Data Store
CLI
REST API
Cloud Native Execution

Installation

If you have Node.js already installed:

# install Express Gateway 
$ npm install -g express-gateway

Creating a Gateway

# create a new gateway using the CLI 
$ eg gateway create

Get Help

Need help or have a question?

Commercial Support

Express Gateway is commercially supported by LunchBadger. For more information about support plans please visit the support page.

Community

Express has a large vibrant community that we hope to extend further with Express Gateway's gateway use case for Express and its middleware.

Roadmap

The Express Gateway roadmap consists of three parts:

FeatHub - features requested and voted on by any community member, this feeds into the...
Roadmap - the published roadmap of all features under considerations and projected timeframes, the highest priority items are put into the...
Waffle board - a real time as a public task board on Waffle.io with backlog of stories for the next release