frontnode v0.1.0

Frontnode

A nodejs based extendable webserver with a reverse proxy, load balancer and caching

Frontnode is an easy to setup webserver, you can configure routes, nodes and callbacks to control the requests and handle them appropriately.

Installing and Runing the server

1. clone/download this repository.
2. make sure you have node and npm installed.
3. run npm install to download required packages.
4. Rename/Copy config.json.sample to config.json and setup your routing rules.
5. node server.js to run the server.

Reverse Proxy

Reverse proxies are used to serve different applications running on different ports/domains on a single domain. Read more about reverse proxies here. Below is an example config.json file

{
  "sourcePort": 80,
  "routes": [
    {
      "route": "/users",
      "target": "http://178.23.45.120:8090"
    },
    {
      "route": "/id",
      "target": "http://117.92.181.212:8010"
    }
  ]
}

Options

• sourcePort - The port that the webserver will listen on.
• routes - An array of all your routes.
• route - The route that needs to handled.
• target - The node where an application is running. The resolved url would be target + route: http://178.23.45.120:8090/users*. During loadbalancing this would be an array of hosts.

Load balancer

WIP