A MicroService is a set of Facets - small objects that manage part of a microservice, such as database access, rest services, etc.
Facets intialise by returning a promise, and can depend on other facets starting (providing there are no dependency loops) by waiting on dependant initialisation promises before returning their own.
Facets are responsible for setting themselves up from configuration properties and for alerting the base service of critical errors like database disconnections. These errors will result in the process exiting, a process manager should be used to ensure it reconnects with back-off.
Built in facets:
- facets.db.redis: Single server promise-based redis connect. Correctly throws errors on connection close.
- facets.db.mysqlPool: Connection-pool based MySQL. Initial connection failure throws errors, future connection errors retry within the pool.
- facets.rpc.jsonServer: Creates a local RPC server that can be called by a facets.rpc.jsonClient on another microservice.
- facets.rpc.jsonClient: Provides access to a remote facets.rpc.jsonServer.
- facets.web.express: Runs an Express web service as a facet.