api-starter

Starter to develop and deploy APIs via Google Cloud Functions

Development

Make sure to specify a CLOUD_PROJECT in .env. CLOUD_PROJECT should be the name of an existing Google Cloud project.

Run locally

# load environment variables from .env and .env.cloud
export $(cat .env | xargs)

# install and launch
npm install
npm run watch

Go to http://localhost:8080/ to interact with your API. Your code lives in index.js. (The site will be reloaded whenever *.js files change.)

Deploy (via Google Cloud Functions)

Connect to your Cloud project:

gcloud config set project $CLOUD_PROJECT

Enable cloud functions for the current project:

gcloud services enable cloudfunctions.googleapis.com

Set the region to "Frankfurt":

gcloud config set functions/region europe-west3

To deploy, run:

npm run deploy