backendjs
Backend library for Node.js
A Node.js library to create Web apps with minimal dependencies.
Features:
- Express 5 is used for the API access.
- Web sessions with CSRF protection, Webauthn/Passkeys.
- Web server runs in separate processes to utilize multiple CPU cores.
- WebSocket connections are processed by the same Express routes.
- Rate limiter based on TokenBucket algorithm can be run in-process or in Redis.
- PUB/SUB modes of operations using Redis, NATS.
- Async jobs processing using queue implementation on top of SQS, Redis, NATS, jobs can be scheduled with croner or run on-demand in separate processes.
- REPL (command line) interface for debugging and looking into server internals.
- Push notifications via Webpush.
- Can be used with any MVC, MVVC or other types of frameworks that work on top of, or with the included Express server.
- Simple DB layer for CRUD operations like Get/Select/Put/Del/Update for supported databases (SQLite, PostreSQL, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch).
- AWS support is very well integrated by using APIs directly without AWS SDK, includes EC2, ECS, S3, DynamoDB, SQS, CloudWatch and more.
- Includes a simple log watcher to monitor the log files and CloudWatch logs.
- Runtime metrics about CPU, DB, requests, cache, memory, rate limits, AWS X-Ray spans.
- The backend process can be used directly in Docker containers without shim init.
NOTE: work in progress, major refactor, the NPM version 0.x is deprecated.
Getting started
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Full documentation
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Documentation
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License
Author
Vlad Seryakov