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hydra-express
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hydra-express
A module which wraps Hydra and ExpressJS to provide an out of the box microservice which can support API routes and handlers.
Hydra-Express is a light-weight library for building NodeJS and ExpressJS based distributed computing applications. It was announced at EmpireNode 2016.
Hydra offers features such as service discovery, distributed messaging, message load balancing, logging, presence, and health monitoring.
Using Hapi, Koa, Sails.js, Restify or Restana then checkout the Hydra Integration Project.
Documentation
We're building a dedicated documentation site for hydra at: https://www.hydramicroservice.com Our older docs are still available at: Full documentation
Interested in running Hydra-express on AWS using Docker containers and Swarm mode? See: https://github.com/cjus/hydra-and-aws-in-docker-swarm
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Are you using or planning on using Hydra on your project? Join us on Slack for more direct support. https://fwsp-hydra.slack.com To join, email cjus34@gmail.com with your desired username and email address (for invite).
Related projects
There are many projects on NPM which contain the name hydra. The following are official projects related to the Hydra - microservice library.
- Hydra: hydra core project for use with Non-ExpressJS apps
- Hydra-Express: hydra for ExpressJS developers
- Hydra-Integration: Integrating third-party Node.js web frameworks with Hydra
- Hydra-Router: A service-aware socket and HTTP API router
- Hydra-cli: a hydra commandline client for interacting with Hydra-enabled applications
- Hydra Generator: A Yeoman generator for quickly building hydra-based projects
- Hydra-plugin-rpc: Create and consume remote procedure calls in hydra with ease
- Hydra-Cluster: A compute cluster based on Hydra
- UMF: Universal Message Format, a messaging specification for routable messages
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A module which wraps Hydra and ExpressJS to provide an out of the box microservice which can support API routes and handlers.
The npm package hydra-express receives a total of 1,171 weekly downloads. As such, hydra-express popularity was classified as popular.
We found that hydra-express demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 08 Feb 2023
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