generator-powdered-toast

About

Generator-powdered-toast uses Yeoman to generate a mock server based on a Swagger specification. This is useful for front-end development when you have a swagger specification of an API that is being actively developed. No more waiting for the API developers to deploy to a development server. Get started building your boss UX right away.

Have a production or development API that is being changed? You can seemlessly proxy requests not specified in the Swagger to those upstream services by adding an optional proxy.

The powdered-toast server uses the following technolgy stack:

• hapi.js - A badass Node.js REST server from the ninjas at Walmart.com.
• A fork of Swagmock - A Swagger based mocking library.
• swaggerize-hapi - A Swagger based hapi.js plugin.
• hapi-swaggered-ui - A Swagger UI implementation for hapi.js.
• h2o2 - A proxy handler plugin for hapi.js.

Making Powdered Toast

Make sure you have pre-installed node.js, npm, and Yarn. Install Yeoman and generator-powdered-toast globally using npm.

npm install -g yo
npm install -g generator-powdered-toast

Then generate your project.

yo powdered-toast

Running Your Shiny New Powdered Toast

Issue the following command to start the powdered-toast service locally.

npm start

Environment

Powdered-toast uses dotenv to configure environmental variables. Take a look at the .env file in the root of the project. A description of the variables follows the example.

API_HOST=localhost
API_PORT=9980
UI_HOST=localhost
UI_PORT=9980
WS_PORT=9981
TLS_ENABLED=true
PROXY_UPSTREAM_PROTOCOL=http
PROXY_UPSTREAM_HOST=api.example.com
PROXY_HEADER_HOST=client.example.com
DEBUG=server,proxy

API_HOST

This is the host name within the server network dns. When you run powdered-toast locally it will generally match the UI_HOST value. However, sometimes you may have different values as in a Docker stack.

API_PORT

This is the internal network port for the API.

UI_HOST

This is the API hostname that the client will use. In a Docker stack this could be different based on the port forwarding configuration.

UI_PORT

This is the port that a client will use to hit the API.

WS_PORT

This is the web sockets port used by the debugger UI.

NOTE: When powdered-toast runs in TLS mode the debugger UI is currently not working. There is an issue with connecting over wss.

PROXY_UPSTREAM_PROTOCOL

This is the protocol for the upstream services. Can be either 'http' or 'https'.

PROXY_UPSTREAM_HOST

This is the upstream hostname.

PROXY_HEADER_HOST

This is the optional host header that will be set on proxy requests.

TLS_ENABLED

If set to "true" the service will run over https with self-signed certs.

DEBUG

There are currently two debuggers - one in the main server file and one the proxy controller. These are activated my adding them to a comma seperated string. To turn off debugging, remove the entries.

Regenerate from Swagger using Yeoman

In the case you want to mofify the Swagger specification, the following command will use Yeoman to regenerate handlers and data.

npm run regenerate

If there are conflicts you will be prompted to overwrite.

Swagger UI

A Swagger UI instance is included for viewing and testing the API.

/swagger-ui

Dredd Testing

Powdered-toast includes Dredd to test your API. To run Dredd tests just run the following in a terminal:

npm run dredd

License

Apache-2.0 © Gregory Buchenberger