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@godaddy/aws-liveness
Advanced tools
Waits for AWS/localstack services to be up and running.
npm i --save aws-liveness
import AWSLiveness from '@godaddy/aws-liveness';
import { DynamoDBClient } from '@aws-sdk/client-dynamodb';
const awsLiveness = new AWSLiveness();
// ping and wait services up to 10 seconds
try {
await awsLiveness.waitForServices({
clients: [new DynamoDBClient()],
waitSeconds: 10
});
console.log('services are live');
} catch (err) {
console.error('service liveness failed', err);
}
// ping a service
try {
await awsLiveness.ping({ client: new DynamoDBClient() });
console.log('dynamodb ping success');
} catch (err) {
console.error('dynamodb ping failed', err);
}
By default, AWSLiveness supports running the following liveness commands for the following client types:
| Client | Method |
|---|---|
DynamoDBClient | ListTablesCommand |
KinesisClient | ListStreamsCommand |
S3Client | ListBucketsCommand |
SNSClient | ListPlatformApplicationsCommand |
SQSClient | ListQueuesCommand |
You can also create additional checks to customize liveness.
import AWSLiveness from '@godaddy/aws-liveness';
import { DynamoDBClient, DescribeTableCommand } from '@aws-sdk/client-dynamodb';
class MyCustomService {
async fetchSomeData () {
return { foo: 'bar' }
}
}
const customServices = [{
test: client => client instanceof DynamoDBClient,
ping: client => client.send(new DescribeTableCommand({ TableName: 'Foo' }))
}, {
test: client => client instanceof MyCustomService,
ping: client => client.fetchSomeData()
}]
const awsLiveness = new AWSLiveness({ services: customServices });
const dynamoDBClient = new DynamoDBClient();
const myCustomService = new MyCustomService();
awsLiveness.ping({ client: dynamoDBClient })
.then(() => console.log('dynamodb ping success'))
.catch(console.error);
awsLiveness.ping({ client: myCustomService })
.then(() => console.log('my custom service ping success'))
.catch(console.error);
AWS Liveness uses debug module internally to log information about ping requests and services status. Logging is turned off by default and can be conditionally turned on by setting the DEBUG environment variable equals to aws-liveness.
You can use this module to ensure that LocalStack services are up and running before you test and/or start your application.
// ping-localstack.js
const dynamoDBClient = new DynamoDBClient({
endpoint: process.env.DYNAMODB_ENDPOINT
});
try {
await awsLiveness.waitForServices({
clients: [dynamoDBClient],
waitSeconds: process.env.WAIT_SECONDS || 10
});
} catch (err) {
console.error('service liveness failed', err);
process.exit(1);
}
{
"scripts": {
"localstack": "docker run -it -p 4569:4569 -p 9999:8080 --rm localstack/localstack",
"localstack-wait": "AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=fakeid AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=fakekey node ping-localstack.js",
"test-e2e": "npm run localstack && npm run localstack-wait && AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=fakeid AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=fakekey mocha test-e2e/**/*.test.js"
}
}
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FAQs
AWS Liveness tools
The npm package @godaddy/aws-liveness receives a total of 1 weekly downloads. As such, @godaddy/aws-liveness popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that @godaddy/aws-liveness demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 12 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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