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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

Sharing dependencies


Microservices are great when it comes to building scalable code bases with independent deployments, separating concerns, better resilience, polyglot technologies and better modularity, reusability, and development life cycle. However, modularity and reusability come at a cost. More modularity and reusability may often result in high coupling or code duplications. Having many different services attached to the same shared library will soon lead us back to square one and we will end up with monolithic hell.

In this section, we are going to see how to overcome this hell. We will see some options with practical implementations and understand the sharing code and common code process. So let's get started.

The problem and solution 

Sharing code between microservices is always tricky. We need to make sure that a common dependency does not break our microservices freedom. The major goals that we want to achieve while sharing code are:

  • Share common code among our microservices, while...