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@whook/http-server

The Whook base HTTP server

The Whook's httpServer service is responsible for instanciating the NodeJS HTTP Server and handling its start/shutdown.

It can be easily replaced by any other HTTP server (an HTTPS one for instance if you cannot use a gateway or a proxy to handle HTTPS connections).

The server takes in charge graceful shutdown by awaiting connections to be closed before shutting down which can take a long time (basically if a browser is still maintaining an open socket with it). You can short circuit this behavior, basically for development, by setting the DESTROY_SOCKETS=1 environment variable.

API

Functions

Typedefs

initHTTPServer(services) ⇒ Promise.<HTTPServer>

Initialize an HTTP server

Kind: global function
Returns: Promise.<HTTPServer> - A promise of an object with a NodeJS HTTP server in its service property.

Param	Type	Default	Description
services	Object		The services the server depends on
services.ENV	Object		The process environment variables
services.ENV.DESTROY_SOCKETS	String		Whether the server sockets whould be destroyed or if the server should wait while sockets are kept alive
services.HTTP_SERVER_OPTIONS	Object		See https://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/http.html#class-httpserver
services.HOST	String		The server host
services.PORT	Number		The server port
services.httpRouter	function		The function to run with the req/res tuple
services.log	function	noop	A logging function