Hydra is a NodeJS light-weight library for building distributed computing applications such as microservices
Hydra is a NodeJS package which facilitates building distributed applications such as Microservices.
Hydra offers features such as service discovery, distributed messaging, message load balancing, logging, presence, and health monitoring. It was announced at EmpireNode 2016.
Install the latest stable version via npm install hydra --save
See our quick start guide and sample projects
If you're just getting started with Node Microservices and you have ExpressJS experience you should first look at our HydraExpress project.
If you want a lighter-weight Express integration or you're using Hapi, Koa, Sails.js, Restify or Restana then checkout the Hydra Integration Project.
Visit our dedicated documentation site for hydra at: https://www.hydramicroservice.com
Hydra works great on AWS using Docker containers and Swarm mode, see: https://www.hydramicroservice.com/docs/docker/docker.html
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).
There are many projects on NPM which contain the name hydra. The following are official projects related to the Hydra - microservice library.
A special thanks to Michael Stillwell for generously transferring his Hydra project name on NPM!
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Hydra is a NodeJS light-weight library for building distributed computing applications such as microservices
The npm package hydra receives a total of 1,147 weekly downloads. As such, hydra popularity was classified as popular.
We found that hydra 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.
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