hydra-express

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.

See our quick start guide

Using Hapi or Koa? 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

Join us on Slack!

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 [e-mail] 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-cli: a hydra commandline client for interacting with Hydra-enabled applications
• Hydra Generator: A Yeoman generator for quickly building hydra-based projects
• Hydra-Router: A service-aware socket and HTTP API router
• UMF: Universal Message Format, a messaging specification for routable messages
• Hydra-Cluster: A compute cluster based on Hydra

Articles

• Tutorial: Building ExpressJS-based microservices using Hydra
• Building a Microservices Example Game with Distributed Messaging
• Deploying Node.js Microservices to AWS using Docker
• Using Docker Swarm for Deploying Node.js Microservices