Moleculer
Moleculer is a fast & powerful microservices framework for NodeJS (>= v6.x).
Website: https://moleculer.services
Documentation: https://moleculer.services/docs
What's included
- Promise-based solution
- request-reply concept
- event bus system
- supports middlewares
- service mixins
- multiple services on a node/server
- built-in caching solution (memory, Redis)
- pluggable transporters (NATS, MQTT, Redis)
- pluggable serializers (JSON, Avro, MsgPack, Protocol Buffer)
- load balanced requests (round-robin, random)
- every nodes are equal, no master/leader node
- auto discovery services
- parameter validation with fastest-validator
- distributed timeout handling with fallback response
- health monitoring, metrics & statistics
- supports versioned services (run different versions of the service)
- official API gateway module
Installation
$ npm install moleculer --save
or
$ yarn add moleculer
Create your first microservice
This example shows you how to create a small service with an add
action which can add two numbers.
const { ServiceBroker } = require("moleculer");
let broker = new ServiceBroker({ logger: console });
broker.createService({
name: "math",
actions: {
add(ctx) {
return Number(ctx.params.a) + Number(ctx.params.b);
}
}
});
broker.start();
// Call service
broker.call("math.add", { a: 5, b: 3 })
.then(res => console.log("5 + 3 =", res))
.catch(err => console.error(`Error occured! ${err.message}`));
Create a Moleculer project
Use the Moleculer CLI tool to create a new Moleculer based microservices project.
-
Install moleculer-cli globally
$ npm install moleculer-cli -g
-
Create a new project (named
first-demo
)$ moleculer init project-simple first-demo
Add API Gateway and press Y to
npm install
-
Open project folder
$ cd first-demo
-
Start project
$ npm run dev
-
Open the http://localhost:3000/math.add?a=5&b=3 link in your browser. It will call the
add
action ofmath
service with two params via API gateway and returns with the result.
Official modules
We have some official modules for Moleculer. See the list!
Documentation
You can find here the documentation.
Changelog
See CHANGELOG.md.
Roadmap
See ROADMAP.md.
License
Moleculer is available under the MIT license.
Contact
Copyright (c) 2016-2017 Ice Services