This is the gateway server for the Node Microservices boilerplate.

It will perform routing for the microservices using Seneca for orchestration.

It will also perform functions that must be performed on every request/response i.e. Validate and decode the token with every request log the request and response for every request with the transaction logger etc

Basic Structure:

    server.js initializes the server, sets up some logging/caching, pulls in configuration settings, etc
    
    routes/generalRouter/generalRouter.js has the routing functions
            
    app-config settings.js contains the settings for each microservice
        both the gateway and microservice get the settings from there
        i.e:
                hello: {
                    type: 'tcp', // protocol
                    port: 3029, 
                    pin: 'service:hello', // pin is used to match a request to a microservice
                    allowAnonymous: 0, // determines if the gateway will route requests from anonymous users to the microservice
                    restricted: 0 // determines if the microservice will accept requests from users without a full access token
                },
                
                
Getting started:

    // clone the gateway
    // --depth 1 removes all but one .git commit history
    git clone --depth 1 git@github.com:5forcegees/node_microservices-gateway.git
    
    // change directory into the gateway
    cd node-gateway


    // install the node modules and support libraries
    npm install
    
    // start the application
    npm start
    
    
    // make a request
    Since there isn't a front end to this project you can use the included postman collection to make a request
    
    On *nix systems you can also use this curl
        curl -X GET \
          http://127.0.0.1:3010/ping \
          -H 'cache-control: no-cache' \
          -H 'service: hello'
    
    The gateway uses microservices to perform functions.  Check out these microservices to see it all working together:
    https://github.com/5forcegees/node_microservices-hackerNews
    https://github.com/5forcegees/node_microservices-hello