Express-datafire NPM

Express DataFire

Live-editing & testing of datafire endpoints & scheduled tasks using express.

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Usage: as application

$ git clone https://github.com/coderofsalvation/express-datafire 
$ cd express-datafire
$ npm install
$ node app.js

Usage: as middleware

$ npm install express-datafire --save

And in your express app:

// Create a new Express application.
var app = express()

var port                = process.env.PORT || 3002
var host                = process.env.HOST || '127.0.0.1:'+port
require('express-datafire')(app, { port: port, host: host })

app.listen(port, function(){
  console.log("listening on "+host)
})

BOOM!

surf to / and you can access your endpoints & features

Getting started video

Why

Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with datafire, so basically this is fanware

Express-datafire is intended for datafire enthousiast & experimentation, or to simply run datafire-code which shouldn't run on datafire.io. Please go to datafire.io in case you want:

free hosting of datafire code
a comfortable, and scalable way of glue-ing together complex dataflows
share and re-use other people's dataflows

topic	express-datafire	datafire.io
stress testing / monitoring	yes	yes (but may spike pricing tier)
high volume realtime UDP-data	yes	no
datafire actions	yes	yes
datafire tasks	yes	yes
datafire cli	yes	no
support for experimental npm modules	yes	no (for obvious reasons)
scalable	no	yes
multitenancy	tedious	easy
create dataflows with existing integrations	tedious	easy
IoT sensors / hardware access	yes	no
runs on intranet	yes	no
offline prototyping	yes	no
(server) hasslefree	no	yes
safe for clientwork	no	yes
work with extremely big files / video encoding	yes	no

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Environment variables

All these are optional:

environment variable	value	explanation
AUTH_USER	test	login name for data-editor at /admin
AUTH_PASSWORD	test	password for data-editoro at /admin
AUTH_ENDPOINTS	1	set this if you want to enable auth for endpoints too
SSL_PRIVKEY	privkey.pem	set this to enable SSL
SSL_CERT	cert.pem	set this to enable SSL
HOST	'localhost'	host for swagger-ui to use for testing requests
PORT	3002	port for swagger-ui- to use for testing requests
DATADIR	'./data'	override default data-path for live editable endpoints