Endpoint Validator is a simple and lightweight tool for checking URL statuses and validating both JSON and XML response schemas.
With this tool the developer can monitor endpoint health, which is useful when the Back End is a 3rd party support over which the developer has no or little control.
The tool uses the npm Request module.
- HTTP and HTTPS requests
- Status Code check on given URL
- JSON and XML parsing (jxon used for the latter)
- Schema validation on received response (using Yup)
- Relay URL health data to other services (see below)
- monitoring.js: is a dead simple server plugin that uses the
httpmodule of Node.js to display the latest health check data in the browser - slack.js: is a simple Slack Bot that sends messages to a given webhook if the URL responds with a bad HTTP status code or if the response data structure does not match a given schema
Fork this repository and simply run npm i.
After adding the URLs with their proper schema to the endpoints.js file, just run the following
npm start
Or use the Monitoring service and see the details in your browser
npm start monitoring
Or use the slack service and get notified in Slack
npm start slack
Or use them both
npm start monitoring slack
Or write your own services...
By default SERVER_LOGGING option is set to be true, so all logs will appear on the console as well.
To write ever better schemas, one should definitely read the documentation for Yup.
https://github.com/jquense/yup
The approach I took with this project might not be optimal or even good, but as my first Node.js project, I wanted to "play" a bit. I wanted to better understand modules and what I could do with them.
So.. Have fun!
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