kickstarting

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A very lightweight modular architecture to kickstart applications

About

An ultra lightweight way of setting up a standard application runtime environment by pulling in and initializing core dependencies in a well-defined manner without having to repeat yourself.

Why

This basic module starts out with configuration (nconf) and logging (bunyan).

  • nconf
  • bunyan
  • logger instance
  • startup / shutdown messages
  • package info (package.json)

Other optional packages may supply a web server, persistence, caching, etc.

Surely quite customized to my needs but maybe serves others as a template.

Still needs a bit more documentation love, so use with care. It’s currently primarily intended for my own use.

Install

Install with npm

npm i kickstarting --save

Usage

Usage

npm install -S https://github.com/AndreasPizsa/startup

The in your code, do

var env = require('startup')({uses:'app'});
 

or more elegantly in CoffeeScript

env = require 'startup' uses:'app'

The Environment

Startup creates an "environment" which is a fancy word for a hash with useful instances of other tools.

npm install startup startup-restify startup-redis
# app.coffee
env = require 'startup' uses:'app redis restify'
## results in
{
  _       : # lodash-instance
  rootDir : '/users/you/your-project'
  bunyan  : # bunyan
  log     : # bunyan instance
  nconf   : # nconf instance
  pkginfo : # package.json
}

Config files

  • /config/{development|production}.json
  • /config/{development|production}.{json|coffe|litcoffee}

Related Projects

Issues

Please report any bugs or feature requests, thanks!

Author

Andreas Pizsa

License

Copyright (c) 2014 Andreas Pizsa, contributors.
Released under the MIT license.


This file was generated by verb-cli on October 28, 2014.

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