micro-starter

Micro Starter

A Node microservice starter kit

Basic starter kit for a Node microservice using Micro and other modern JS-y things.

What do I get

• Micro for no fluff HTTP serving
•  Webpack for bundling with ES7 syntax
• Jest for speedy and easy to write tests
• XO for no fuss linting
• Development setup including file watching and server restarting for happy devs

Tell me more

Usage

yarn global add micro-starter
micro-start my-app-name # create a new project directory ready for microservicing

Helpers

• yarn dev: Run development server to watch your files
• yarn build: Build for production
• yarn start: Run application

Testing

• yarn test:spec: Run tests with Jest
• yarn test:lint: Lint your code with XO
• yarn test: Run it all

Environment

Use build/env.js for env vars in development but don't check it into source control! You can keep build/env.example.js updated with the dummy environmental requirements of your app for other devs.

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Use micro-starter?

Let people know on your readme!    

[![made with micro-starter](https://img.shields.io/badge/kit-micro--starter-3986fe.svg)](https://github.com/samtgarson/micro-starter)

Contribute

Please open issues/PRs. Thanks.

Happy microservicing.