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A ready-to-use SSE messaging microservice implementation. Intended for internal use only (all is public here by the moment).
Backend documentation https://laxertu.github.io/eric/docs.html
REST services rely on FastApi + Uvicorn
Features:
Installation:
pip install eric-api
With docker (example)
docker build -t eric-api-image .
Start webserver
uvicorn eric_api:app
With docker (example)
docker container start eric-api
Redis persistence support
Activate it by creating a .eric-api.env with the following:
QUEUES_FACTORY=redis
Redis host is configured by
REDIS_HOST=[host to use]
API documentation is available at http://127.0.0.1:8000/docs by default
See correspondant uvicorn configuration https://www.uvicorn.org/deployment/#running-from-the-command-line
Bug Tracker: https://github.com/laxertu/eric-api/issues
FAQs
A Server side events based messaging microservice implementation
We found that eric-api demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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