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.
Authentication is based on signed requests using API key and secret, similar to Amazon AWS signing requests.
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 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.

npm install backendjs --save

or clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/vseryakov/backendjs.git

Vlad Seryakov