haskellcamargo / node-server

Tiny REST server demo!

Node Demo Server

Setup

• Clone this repository
• Run npm install && npm build
• Run npm start
• Profit!

Development

• npm build to compile the sources to ES5
• npm lint to run eslint under src/
• npm test to run mocha tests over the server

Testing will also give the text output coverage via nyc.

Configuring

Under config/, define your environment settings. Start the server with NODE_ENV=<profile> set. There are default and test at the moment.

Stack

• Node.JS because: yes
• MongoDB because:
  • BSON has good interoperability with JS
  • Mongo is pretty good on indexing things
  • Querying statistic data in large indexed collections is pretty fast
  • Aggregations support (althought not used here)
• Babel because:
  • The compiler is very extensible and I write a lot of plugins for it
  • I can make JS less painful
• Mocha + Chai because:
  • Jest is one of the worst tools I've seen for testing (Mocha is love)
• Eslint + eslint-config-rung
  • Eslint with the set of configs we've built for Rung. No let, no var, no loops, no mutability, not that painful

However, although we've used mongoose is definitely not the way to go. Sorry, people, everything is terrible.