Doubt about possible implementations.

[francjpd]

Hello

I apologize in advance if this is not the right place to post this kind of inquiry, i couldn't find a forum / slack / discord out there . :/

I was reading the documentation and the architecture said

there are two types of implementation, storefront & gateway

I assumed i could use puzzleJS by either Storefront, Gateway or both.

I continued to read about the Storefront and the very first line said:

Storefront is the main application that handles requests coming from user's browser

This line made me doubt, so my question is: Does the gateway can live without the Storefront?. or i need the storefront in order to make puzzleJs to work properly.

Cheers

[cagataycali]

The answer is; yes but how:
Storefront is passing request to gateways through one path.
Gateways are exposing http endpoint on selected port with little bit complex uri.
Here's quick example with scenario:

Storefront knows which gateways responsible for respond users request.
In demo, we have two of them; browsing and platform gateways.
Just in case, gateways does not knows anything about caller aka storefront.
https://github.com/puzzle-js/multi-project-demo/blob/master/storefront/index.js#L16

Storefront allocating on 4445 port which is depend the other gateways up and running. (http://localhost:4445)

Platform gateway allocating on 4444 port which is depend nobody. ( http://localhost:4444/ )
Browsing gateway allocating on 4443 port which is also depend nobody. ( http://localhost:4443/ )

You can see if you visit http://localhost:4444/footer (Platform gateway - Footer fragment) your response is there and ready to use.

TLDR;

• Gateways can be used by external callers (without storefront).
• Storefront can be used without external gateways in static serving cases for example.
• Storefront and gateways designed for working together, we are using both in that way in production.

Sincerely,
Cagatay.

[francjpd]

Thank you for the detailed response :D :)