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TypeScript Microservices

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TypeScript Microservices

Overview of this book

In the last few years or so, microservices have achieved the rock star status and right now are one of the most tangible solutions in enterprises to make quick, effective, and scalable applications. The apparent rise of Typescript and long evolution from ES5 to ES6 has seen lots of big companies move to ES6 stack. If you want to learn how to leverage the power of microservices to build robust architecture using reactive programming and Typescript in Node.js, then this book is for you. Typescript Microservices is an end-to-end guide that shows you the implementation of microservices from scratch; right from starting the project to hardening and securing your services. We will begin with a brief introduction to microservices before learning to break your monolith applications into microservices. From here, you will learn reactive programming patterns and how to build APIs for microservices. The next set of topics will take you through the microservice architecture with TypeScript and communication between services. Further, you will learn to test and deploy your TypeScript microservices using the latest tools and implement continuous integration. Finally, you will learn to secure and harden your microservice. By the end of the book, you will be able to build production-ready, scalable, and maintainable microservices using Node.js and Typescript.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we began designing our microservices for the shopping cart services. We analyzed our requirements based on technical, functional, and business capabilities, which are the primary drivers in scoping microservices. We designed our schema, analyzed our microservice structure, and ran it on Docker. Finally, we looked at some of the best practices for microservice design and learned how to scope microservices based on our business capabilities.

In the next chapter, we are going to learn how to introduce a gateway to our microservices and understand the problem a gateway solves. We are going to see how API Gateway solves centralized concerns in distributed systems. We will get acquainted with some API Gateway design patterns and design our gateway for the shopping cart microservices.