Let's start by writing our first microservice. Based on the previous topics, we will construct our first microservice with best practices and the widely used node_modules. We will use:
Adds CORS headers, so that cross applications can access it. | |
Routing Controllers (https://www.npmjs.com/package/routing-controllers) | Beautiful decorators provided in this module, which help us to write our API's and routes easily. |
Winston (https://www.npmjs.com/package/winston) |
So, open up a Terminal and create one Node project with a default package.json. Follow these steps. The full source code for reference is available in the first-microservice folder in the extracted source:
- First of all, we will download the preceding dependencies and basic express dependencies. Enter the following command lines:
npm install body-parser config cookie-parser cors debug express reflect-metadata...