vulpes-api

Vulpes-API

API generator for the Vulpes job management framework

About

Vulpes is a NodeJS job management framework, designed to provide a solid base to build automation projects upon. This library provides an interface that exports an ExpressJS API (Router) that can be used to instantly provide an API endpoint for your job management platform.

Installation

Install by running npm install vulpes-api --save. Vulpes-API depends on vulpes as a peer dependency, so you must have that installed as well.

Usage

Usage is quite simple - assuming that you have an existing ExpressJS setup:

const express = require("express");
const { Service } = require("vulpes");
const { createVulpesAPIRouter } = require("vulpes-api");
const app = express();
const port = 3000;

// Create a new service
const service = new Service();

service.initialise().then(() => {
    app.get("/", (req, res) => {
        res.send("...");
    });

    app.use("/api", createVulpesAPIRouter(service));

    app.listen(port, () => {
        console.log(`Application listening on port ${port}`);
    });
});

The primary method createVulpesAPIRouter takes a Vulpes Service instance as the first paramter:

createVulpesAPIRouter(service, {
    cors: true,
    log: logInstance
});

The options parameter is optional, as are all of its subsequent properties. The log parameter expects an object or instance that provides methods like info, warn, error etc. (much like Bunyan). The exported value is basically an ExpressJS Router instance (actually from express-promise-router).